Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismoyle, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismoyle
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismoyle
- Coordinates
- 53.94503, -8.00401
- SMR number
- LE031-064----
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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
Situated in a low-lying landscape with a small N-S stream c. 10m to the E. This is a grass-covered circular earthen platform (diam. 38m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by an intermittently visible overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m) with an external fosse (at W: Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.8m), but the bank is frequently reduced to a scarp (H 1m). There is a causeway (Wth of top 3.8m) across the fosse at E, and the perimeter is slightly truncated by an E-W field bank at S.
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: 16 October 2019
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.