Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisduff (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisduff (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82952, -8.11607
- SMR number
- RO023-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle E-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 48m E-W; 46m N-S) defined by an overgrown and partly poached earthen bank (at E: Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.9m; at W: Wth 7.6m; int. 1.2m; ext. H 1.8m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.5-7.2m; Wth of base 2.2-2.5m; D 1.4m at N to 3m at W) from an outer bank (Wth 4.5-6.1m; ext. H 1.2m) SSW-N-SE. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 2.5m) and outer (Wth 3.5m) banks with a causeway (Wth 3m) at SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.