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Ringfort - rath

Lismannagh, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lismannagh, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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