Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnacush, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnacush
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62789, -7.96787
- SMR number
- LF021-007----
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 SE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 26.8m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.4m; H 0.65m max.) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 5.1m; D 0.2m). A NNE-SSW field boundary skirts the fosse from NNE-E-SE. Some large boulders are incorporated into the bank but both it and the fosse are much degraded by cattle trampling over the monument. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.