Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissalway, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissalway
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77268, -8.41034
- SMR number
- RO027-007----
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 WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m) ENE-SE reduced to a scarp (H 1.2-1.6m) elsewhere with a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6m generally to 8.7m at N; Wth of base 3m generally to 6.7m at N; D 0.6-1.1m). There is no identifiable original entrance, and a NNE-SSW field bank overlies the monument towards the perimeter at E, the bank not being preserved E of this feature.
See the attached aerial image taken from the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.