Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnanuran, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnanuran
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89448, -8.09557
- SMR number
- RO011-114----
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 top of a low rise. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 39m N-S; 37.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.75-5.9m; int. H 0.25m at S to 0.9m at W; ext. H 0.65m at NE to 0.9m at W) S-WNW and NE-ENE, and a scarp (H 0.45-0.6m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.1-0.45m) SW-W, but there is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.