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Ringfort - rath

Lissard, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lissard, County Longford, 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
Lissard
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.72337, -7.60277
SMR number
LF015-040----

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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

In a forestry plantation on a low natural elevation. Marked as a roughly circular enclosure, planted with trees, with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This possible rath has been partly levelled. It is visible as a roughly oval raised area (c. 20-25m N–S; c. 17-20m E–W) defined by a low broadly sloping scarp (H c. 1.2m) that is easiest to trace from E–SE–S where it merges with a natural fall of ground, giving an overall drop in height at E of c. 2m. From SW–W–NW it (H c. 0.5m) is lower and less well defined. At N it is difficult to determine the exact limits of the monument as it and its immediate surroundings are planted with beech and Scots pine, representing an older phase of planting, and these trees are surrounded by a more recent, densely planted coniferous plantation with birch trees on the margins. There is no clearly defined break of slope between the flat interior and the scarp.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 9 January 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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