Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Liscolvan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscolvan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89859, -8.05928
- SMR number
- RO011-126----
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
Towards the W end of a low E-W drumlin ridge. D-shaped overgrown area (dim. c 25m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4-5m; D 0.3-1m) NW-NE, and by straight field banks elsewhere, especially E-W at S. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-159----) is c. 140m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.