Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnagard, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnagard
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82206, -8.25492
- SMR number
- RO022-025----
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 rise on the N-facing slope of an E-W ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 34.4m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.9m) NE-E-SE and by a scarp (H 2m) NW-NE. The perimeter is a straight E-W earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m; L 14m) at S, and the monument has been quarried at W. The fosse is represented by a band of reeds (Wth 1.6-2.2m) NW-E-SE, and the entrance (Wth 3.5m) and causeway (Wth 2m) are at E. Rath (RO022-024----) is c. 200m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.