Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lislea (Moydow By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lislea (Moydow By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61216, -7.77507
- SMR number
- LF023-044----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a very gentle S-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised oval area (c. 47m NW-SE; c. 36m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone with fragmentary traces of an external fosse. Both the bank and fosse had been extensively modified and incorporated into a field boundary from W-N-NE. The original entrance may have been at E. The rath has since been levelled. Its location is marked by a low, irregular rise (H 0.2m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.