Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissaphuca (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaphuca (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76674, -8.19868
- SMR number
- RO028-048----
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 gentle S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 42.3m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (at S: Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.9m; at N: Wth 7m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.8m) NNW-E-SSW which is reduced to a scarp and barely traceable elsewhere, and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 7-7.5m; Wth of base 2-2.7m; D 0.1-0.8m) NNW-SE. The entrance (Wth 1.9m) is at SSE. Archaeological monitoring (03E0914) of road-widening works, c. 100m to the S failed to produce any related archaeological material (Rooney 2006).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Rooney, F. 2006 Strokestown. No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 429, No. 1605. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.