Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisroosky, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisroosky
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.39495, -6.96780
- SMR number
- MO003-015----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a local rise of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure described in gothic lettering as a 'fort' only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular, slightly raised grass-covered area (diam. 36m) that slopes down slightly to the E and is defined by a scarp (max. H c. 1m). There is no visible fosse or indication of an entrance. The perimeter at N may be incorporated into an E-W field bank while it might be slightly truncated at E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 25 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.