Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lyonstown, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lyonstown
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04867, -8.19946
- SMR number
- RO003-018----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Just off the crest of the W-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular rush and scrub-covered area (diam. 29m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 1.6-2.4m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 0.45-0.55m), which is incorporated into a field bank NNW-NNE, with a fosse (Wth of top 2.2-2.4m; ext. D 0.1m) ENE-SSE and WSW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.