Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisraherty, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisraherty
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89346, -7.55615
- SMR number
- LF003-006----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 43m) enclosed from SE-S-N by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6-8m; H 0.4-1.5m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 2-3m) with a wide, deep, intervening fosse (Wth 5m; D 1.5-2m) and an outer bank (Wth 6m; H 1-1.5m). From NNE-E-S the outer bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. A report in 1990 (SMR file) suggested that a break in the inner bank at SE with an accompanying causeway marked the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.