Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismannagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismannagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95185, -7.99874
- SMR number
- LE031-036----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in a low-lying landscape with a small N-S stream or drain skirting the perimeter E-S, and this joins a larger N-S stream c. 45m to the SW. This rath is not depicted on any map but is visible as a faint circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 154: H 001) and some later series. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 22m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.25m) which is incorporated in a field bank E-S, and an external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.1m) S-W-NE. The original entrance is not identified.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.