Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissadorn, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissadorn
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.86527, -8.19419
- SMR number
- RO016-081----
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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 a shelf of a S-facing slope overlooking a W-E stream c. 40m to the S. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 28.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.7-3.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.35m) W-ENE, and by a scarp (H 0.7m at E to 1.65m at S) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3-4m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.2m) WSW-N-ENE. An E-W field bank and drain cross the interior towards the perimeter at S.
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.