Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissadrone East, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissadrone East
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.27034, -9.27272
- SMR number
- MA014-109----
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
In pasture, located on a slight elevation. Not indicated on the OS 6-inch maps. This rath has been levelled. An inspection in 1995 recorded a raised circular area (diam. 31.5m) bisected centrally by a field fence on a roughly E−W axis. The portion of the rath which lay to N of the field fence had already been levelled at that date, but the S half of the rath remained clearly defined by a low enclosing bank, reduced to a scarp on the SW arc. Subsequently further damage to the rath took place: the S half of the rath was fully levelled, and the E−W field fence was removed. The outline of the S half of the rath can still be traced as a slight rise in ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.