Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismagunshin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismagunshin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16731, -6.80726
- SMR number
- MO019-007----
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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 about the centre of a small NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath, or rath (MO019-006----) c. 60m to the NW, is represented on McCrea’s Map of County Monaghan (1793), and it is also represented a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic script as a ‘fort’. It is a grass-covered circular area (diam. c. 35-40m) quartered by NW-SE and NE-SW field banks. The S quadrant is overgrown but preserves a scarp (Wth 1.2m; H 1.7m) of a circular enclosure and there are slight traces of it in the E quadrant but it cannot be traced elsewhere. The W and N quadrants had been broken into one by 2000 (OSAP).
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: 22 June 2018
References
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.