Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisfarrellboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisfarrellboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclousre
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97790, -8.15609
- SMR number
- RO007-025002-
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 32m NE-SW; 25.2m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8-6m; int. H 0.3m at SW to 1m at NE; ext. H 0.6 generally to 1.2m at SW), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; D 0.5m) N-NE. The entrance (Wth 3.5m) is at SSE. Rath (RO007-025001-) is attached to the NW, enclosure (RO007-026----) is c. 70m to the NE, and rath (RO007-028----) is c. 130m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.