Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Liskenna, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liskenna
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.36746, -6.99993
- SMR number
- MO003-028----
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
Located on a prominent rise. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 34.8m N-S; 28.4m E-W) that is level and used as a garden, which is defined by an earthen bank that is largely reduced to t a scarp (H 1.2-1.8m) E-W. A farm lane skirts the perimeter S-W-N where the scarp is highest (H 2.3-3.8m). There is a farmhouse c. 20m to the N and steps lead up to the interior from a modern entrance at N. The original entrance may have been at ESE where the perimeter is lowest, and the monument is surrounded now by farm buildings N-E-S.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.