Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisdornan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisdornan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65341, -6.31296
- SMR number
- ME027-102----
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
Located on a slight shelf towrads the bottom of the N-facing slope of the E-W Bellewtown ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 60-65m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 1-3m) that is absent NE-ESE is visible on Bing Images (c. 2013). There is a large oval feature (max. dims c. 40m WNW-ESE; c. 20m NNE-SSW), probably a quarry pit, inside the perimeter at NE.
See the attached enhanced view from Bing (c. 2013)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 August, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.