Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Liscarnan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscarnan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91460, -6.71002
- SMR number
- MO034-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 at the S end and on the steep E-facing slope of a slight N-S ridge. Depicted faintly as a fragment of an embanked enclosure with a bank E-SW and described as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and as a curve in the field bank on the 1907 edition. The perimeter of what was probably a rath is incorporated into a field bank (H 1m) and hedge SE-SW with field spoil (Chord c. 30m).
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: 27 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Battlefield1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.