Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisanisk, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisanisk
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97550, -6.70282
- SMR number
- MO031-130----
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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 crest of the SW-facing slope of a broad hill. Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence 03E0890). Located on top of a drumlin, overlooking Lisanisk Lake and crannóg (MO031-037----). Excavation revealed a double ditched enclosure (diam. 60m) with a causeway entrance at the SE. Two possible structures were identified within it. An articulated human skeleton was recovered from the upper fill of the outer ditch. Finds included medieval pottery and a number of iron objects. (Coughlan 2006, 399-400)
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
References
Coughlan, T. 2006, Site 108, Lisanisk 2 Ringfort. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 399-400 (No. 1490). Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.