Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnaveane (dartree By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnaveane (dartree By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.14595, -7.02281
- SMR number
- MO018-031----
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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 one of the summits of an E-W drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s Map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 40.5m N-S; 35.5m E-W) defined by slight traces of an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 3.4m; Wth of top 0.9m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.2m) that is largely reduced to a scarp (at SW: Wth 2m; H 0.6m) and hedge. There is no visible fosse and the base of the scarp is skirted by a farm lane ENE-SSW. The original entrance is not identified.
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 18 June 2018
References
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.