Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lislackagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lislackagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92632, -8.98420
- SMR number
- MA071-040----
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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, located on a rise overlooking a stream 20m to N. There is a disused railway track 50m to SE.
Raised oval area (26.3m E−W; 22.9m N−S) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at S, 2.4m at N; Wth slope 1.6m at S, 5m at N). The scarp has been levelled at NE−E (Wth 8m), is low and uneven on the SE arc and has been disturbed at W where a field fence that abutted it was removed. It is best preserved and retains a pronounced external slope at NW−NE, where it is enhanced by the natural fall of ground.
The rath is rather dilapidated; field boundaries which abutted the rath at SE, SW and N have been removed and field clearance debris is dumped on the rath. Another rath (MA071-039----) is located on the opposite side of the stream, 100m to W.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.