Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisbaun (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisbaun (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92724, -8.98983
- SMR number
- MA071-037----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a low ridge, with good views especially to S–NW. Ground falls away to SW to a flat expanse of damp pasture.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. 30-35m), probably a rath, is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on the 1931 edition. It has been levelled but the ephemeral outline of a roughly circular area (31.5m NW–SE; 34.7 NE-SW) can still be traced, defined on the SW half by the hint of a scarp and on the NE half by a slight undulation. It is crossed roughly centrally by a field fence on a NNW–SSE axis.
There are raths (MA071-036----; MA061-199----; MA071-039----; MA071-038----) 255m to W, 120m to N; 200m to E and 120m to S respectively.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 July 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.