Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissaniska North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaniska North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17894, -8.25989
- SMR number
- GA107-141001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a hillock in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (39m N-S; 35.5m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is overgrown with hawthorn trees. The fosse and outer bank survive from SE through W to N. They are cut by field banks from NE to SE and at S. There is a well-defined causewayed entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at N.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.