Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisglassan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisglassan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- frot
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.21370, -6.83978
- SMR number
- MO014-008----
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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 at the summit of and at the SW end of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 37m ENE-WSW; 25m NNW-SSE) defined by an earthen bank (at ESE: Wth of base 4.2m; Wth of top 1.1m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 2.4m) and hedge ENE-SE and SW-WSW, which is reduced to a scarp and hedge elsewhere. Traces of an outer fosse are visible as a berm (Wth c. 3m) NW-NE. There is a gap in the perimeter at NNE but the original entrance is probably that at E (Wth of base 1.3m).
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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.