Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisserdrea, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisserdrea
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisserdrea
- Coordinates
- 53.95046, -8.34457
- SMR number
- RO005-038----
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
On the W-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 38.8m N-S; 31.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3-0.45m; ext. H 2-2.2m) SE-NW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.4-1.6m) elsewhere, separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7.5-9.5m; Wth of base 4-5.25m; D 0.6-1.4m) from a complete outer bank (Wth 3-4.7m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m), which has an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.5m) and third outer bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 1.2m) only SE-SW (max. ext. dims 67.3m N-S; 53.45m E-W). A gap (Wth 4m) in the middle bank at NE is the entrance.
See the attached aerial view taken from the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.