Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lislea (granard By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lislea (granard By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79624, -7.63366
- SMR number
- LF009-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a SSE-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a small enclosed tree plantation on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised oval area (45.5m NNE-SSW; 39m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a wide bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8-5.2m; H 0.2-1.2m) with a wide, deep, steep-sided, flat-bottomed, partially waterlogged fosse (Wth 3.2-c. 5m; D 0.6-1.1m). At the outer lip of the fosse is a narrow, low bank (Wth 0.3m; H 0.3m). This is the remains of a disused field boundary that may have been fashioned from a pre-existing outer bank. A break in the bank (Wth. 1.7m) with accompanying causeway across the fosse (Wth c. 2m; H 0.7m) at N marks the original entrance. The interior is overgrown with trees, bushes and scrub.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.