Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisgorman, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisgorman
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24850, -8.21518
- SMR number
- LE011-089----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the SW-facing slope of a slight ridge on the floor of the Bonet River valley, with the headwaters of a small NE-SW stream c. 35m to the SE. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 34.2m E-W; 26.7m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.4-3.5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-1.2m) with some trees and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.3m), with an outer bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.3m) SW-W. The monument is circumscribed by a roadway E-SW, and the fosse is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW and a NW-SE field bank NE. A fragment of a quernstone is incorporated in the bank at ESE. Rath (LE011-090----) is c. 70m to the ESE.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.