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Ringfort - rath

Lissian, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lissian, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lissian
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.87900, -8.53819
SMR number
RO014-010----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a N-facing slope of a low spur or ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 47m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SSE: Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.6m) separated by a fosse (at SSE: Wth of top 6.8m; Wth of base 4.3m; ext. D 1.5m) from an overgrown outer bank (at SSE: Wth of base 6.9m; Wth of top 4.1m; ext. H 1.4m) which is incorporated into a field bank, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 6.2m Wth of base 3m; D 0.2m). All features survive SE-SW, and the inner bank is continued by a low scarp (H 1.1m at NNW) SW-NNE. There is no visible entrance, but there are swallow holes on the perimeter at N and E. Rath (RO014-013----) is c. 350m to the ESE along the same spur.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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