Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissadrone West, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissadrone West
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lissadrone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissadrone
- Coordinates
- 54.26988, -9.28679
- SMR number
- MA014-012----
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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
In pasture, situated on an E-facing slope. Named 'Lissadrone' on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. Raised circular area (diam. 25.2m) defined by a substantial bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m), and enclosed by a wide, shallow fosse (Wth 4.8m) with a low counterscarp bank (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.2m). The fosse and external bank are largely levelled from NNE–SSE. A partly blocked up break (Wth 2.6m) in the bank at SE may represent the original entrance. The wall footings of a rectangular house (MA014-012001-) project into the interior from the internal face of the bank at E.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 February 2015
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.