Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissaniska (Leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaniska (Leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.09771, -8.43661
- SMR number
- GA125-107----
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 an E-facing slope in marshy grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 33m) defined by a degraded scarp. A field wall cuts through the monument at NNW and NNE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.