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
- 53.65181, -6.30664
- SMR number
- ME027-122----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of Bellewstown Hill. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 27-29m) defined by a fosse (Wth c. 1-3m) is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. A canalised SW-NE stream runs W-E c. 7m to the S and turns N c. 20m to the E but an older channel exits the fosse of the ring-ditch at NNE and extends N. The rath was reported separately by Matthew Mullen-Reynolds and Anthony Murphy about the same time.
See the attached aerial image from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 6 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.