Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisgall (farney By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisgall (farney By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00379, -6.72238
- SMR number
- MO028-112----
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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 the summit and at the centre of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) with no visible fosse. There are gaps in the perimeter at WSW, W and SSE (Wth of base 1.8m), but the last is likely to be the original entrance. The interior has been cleared of blackthorn since 1967 (Bing 2013). Archaeological testing (99E0270) c. 50m to the SW failed to produce any related material (Ó Drisceoil 2000).
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: 8 December 2017
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2000 Lisgall: adjacent to rath. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, P 254, No. 727. Bray, Wordwell
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