Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ross Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ross Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisinnamoon Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismnamoon
- Coordinates
- 53.81817, -8.23271
- SMR number
- RO022-042001-
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 NW-SE spur at the bottom of the S-facing slope at the E end of an E-W ridge. It is described as 'Lismanmoon' on the OS 6-inch maps. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 25m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 0.8m at SE to 2m at SW) N-E-W, with an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m) on the perimeter W-N, across the neck of the spur. There is a berm (Wth 5-8m) at the base of the scarp N-E and S-NW, and a modernised entrance (Wth 4.4m) at NW. At the centre is a grass-covered cairn (RO022-042002-) (dims 10.5m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW; H 0.3-0.4m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.