Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnagreeve, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnagreeve
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisnagreeve fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.17337, -6.75192
- SMR number
- MO015-005----
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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 summit at the S end of a NNW-SSE ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m NNW-SSE; 28.8m ENE-WSWW) with rock outcrop defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (at WNW: Wth of base 4.5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.6m) WNW-E-S and a scarp elsewhere (at SW: H 2.3m). There is no visible fosse but the bank is surrounded by a modern earth and stone wall NW-E-S and a farm lane skirts the base of the scarp S-W. There are gaps at NW and SSE used 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.