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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60918, -7.76186
- SMR number
- LF023-052----
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 gentle S-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised circular area (diam. c. 39m) enclosed from NNW-N-ESE by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2m; H 0.2m) and defined elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.3-0.5m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a shallow external fosse; it has since been infilled. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at E may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.