Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissawly Or St. Alban'S,newpark, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissawly Or St. Alban'S,newpark
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62723, -7.94925
- SMR number
- LF021-016----
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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 gentle NNE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 37.9m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.8m; H 1.1m max.) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 6.3m; D 0.4m). The rath is divided into unequal portions by a NNE-SSW field boundary. In the much-larger portion, to the NW, there is a later field boundary at the outer lip of the fosse. In the smaller portion, to the SE, the fosse has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. A poorly defined break (Wth c. 4m) in the bank at E may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.