Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisfarrellboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisfarrellboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97804, -8.15642
- SMR number
- RO007-025001-
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 SW-facing slope of a low E-W ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8m at SE to 5m at SW; int. H 0.2m generally to 0.7m at NE; ext. H 0.5m generally to 1.15m at SW), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5m; D 0.3m at SW to 0.55m at NE) S-W-NE. Rath (RO007-025002-) is attached to the SE and enclosure (RO007-026----) is c. 70m to the E, while the unclassified megalithic tomb (RO007-024----) is c. 140m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.