Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissanisky, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissanisky
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60741, -9.24185
- SMR number
- MA118-173001-
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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 the level top of a low NE−SW hill or small ridge, with broad, gently sloping sides, affording excellent view in all directions over rolling grassland.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps; visible in aerial imagery (Google Earth dated 11/24/2016).
This rath was levelled at an unknown date in the past but its outline can still be traced at ground level. A circular area (48.5m NW−SE; 51m NE−SW) is defined on the perimeter by a slight rise/undulation, crossed on the NE edge by a drystone field wall/property boundary on a NW−SE axis. There is an oval hollow (c. 18m NW-SE; c. 10m NE−SW) ) immediately outside the enclosure at SW, which naturally fills with water.
The rath interior is level, with a possible souterrain (MA118-173001-) located to SW of centre.
Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère.
Attached images:
MA118-173001-_01.JPG Rath viewed from S
MA118-173001-_02.JPG Google Earth aerial image (11/24/2016)
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.