Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisglassan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisglassan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.21924, -6.84888
- SMR number
- MO014-007----
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 slight SE-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m NE-SW: 38m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 3.9m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 2.6m) and the remains of an outer fosse (at SW: Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.4m) ESE-W-NNE. There are modern entrances at W, NNE, and NE but the original may have been that at S (Wth of base 2.2m) which is also utilised by machinery.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 26 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.