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
- 53.76783, -8.39529
- SMR number
- RO027-010----
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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 the crest of a broad NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 39m E-W; 35.7m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3.4m generally to 8m at E; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m) WNW-N-ESE reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere, and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 10-13m; Wth of base 3.5m at E to 10m at W; D 0.1-0.3m) SW-N-ESE with traces of an outer bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 0.1m) NW-NE. There is no identifiable original entrance, but a fragment of a relict NNW-SSE roadway (Wth 4.5m) overlies the interior towards the perimeter at E (max. ext. diam. 62m E-W).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.