Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissavilla, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissavilla
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85786, -8.14801
- SMR number
- RO017-119----
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 a shelf of a S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 51.8m N-S; 44.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 7-8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.8m) SSW-W which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2-1.9m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 4.5m; D 0.5-1m) SW-W-NE and a berm (Wth 4m) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) SE-SSW. There is no visible entrance, and the site is truncated by a N-S field bank at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.