Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnamoyle Etra, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnamoyle Etra
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02897, -6.66915
- SMR number
- MO028-048----
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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 at the NW end of a low NW-SE ridge in a low-lying landscape with the original E edge of the sub-rectangular and now almost dried up Coolcair Lough c. 40m to the W. This is a subcircular overgrown area (dims 29.4m NE-SW; 26m NW-SE; ) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 3.6m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.4m) which is absent SSW-WNW, separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6-6.8m; Wth of base 1.8-2.4m; ext. D 0.8m at NW to 1.7m at SE) from a complete outer bank (Wth 4.2-4.6m; ext. H 0.3m at SW to 1.2m at NW). The original entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.1m) and outer (Wth of base 2.6m) banks and the causeway (Wth of top 2.4m; H 0.8m) is at E. The monument is bisected by a NW-SE field bank.
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.
Date of revision: 6 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.