Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismagawley, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismagawley
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56223, -7.94753
- SMR number
- LF025-002----
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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 low ridge in pasture, c. 90m to the NE of Ballyorney House. Indicated on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a circular tree plantation with the designation 'Fort'. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this raised oval area (63m NNE-SSW; 45m WNW-ESE) was defined by a wide low bank of earth and stone, which had been faced externally with drystone masonry in relatively modern times. There was no trace of a fosse and the original entrance was not recognisable. It is now defined by a scarp (H 0.35m) upon which mature beech trees are growing. Possibly a rath that was adapted and reused as a landscape feature.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.