Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisdooaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisdooaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20951, -8.14304
- SMR number
- GA108-154----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hillock in grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular enclosure. On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) it is also circular in plan (c. 38m NW-SE; c. 32m NE-SW) with a small projection/pit at the N end. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.