Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissaniska (Costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaniska (Costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75581, -8.88282
- SMR number
- MA092-066----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
In pasture, located on the top of a ridge at the break of slope on the S-facing side. There are very good views to S over an expanse of lowlying pasture; views to NW–NE are less extensive along the undulating spine of the ridge top.
Oval raised area (26m E–W; 21.5m N–S) defined by a scarp (H 1.4m at N, 2m at S). It is crossed centrally by a property fence on a N–S axis. To W of the fence the remains are clearly defined, but to E of the fence the rath has been partly levelled, surviving as a broadly slumped slope. The scarp has a vertical face with remnants of stone facing at SE–S where it was incorporated into an E-W field fence, now removed.
There is no clearly defined entrance feature, but it may have been at NE where the scarp is lowest. The N half of the interior is level and there is a slope from centre down to S.
Grass cover, with gorse and hawthorn on the scarp at SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.