Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissian, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissian
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88313, -8.54314
- SMR number
- RO014-007----
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 S bank of a W-E section of the River Lung. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 52.9m E-W; 38m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 3-3.8m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.7-1.3m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6.2-6.5m; Wth of base 3.2-5m; D 0.5-0.9m) from an outer bank (Wth 1.2m at S to 3.2-3.5m generally; ext. H 0.5-0.7m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 2-3.9m; Wth of base 1.1-2.3m; D 0.2-0.3m). All features survive NE-S-NW and all are truncated at N by the W-E River Lung. There is no visible entrance, and the outer fosse is re-used as a drain SW-NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.