Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnaclea, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnaclea
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.96992, -6.79212
- SMR number
- MO030-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 spine of the SE-facing slope at the S end of a broad NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 49m NW-SE) that slopes down steeply to the SE (H 4.8m) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth 5.6m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 1.2m) and hedge with an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2.4m; ext. D 0.6m) W-N, but the perimeter is reduced to a scarp (at SE: Wth 2m; H 1.9m) E-SW. There is an entrance (Wth of base 3.1m) at SE. The interior has been developed as a garden since 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.
Date of revision: 25 August 2017
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.