Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moigh Upper, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moigh Upper
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheenbantragh Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenabantragh
- Coordinates
- 53.70658, -8.71664
- SMR number
- RO032-003----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low N-S spur at the S foot of Kiltullagh Hill. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 42m NE-SW; 38.7m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth 3m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.9m) N-SE which merges into the natural, scrub-covered slope SE-W and which has been truncated by a NE-SW field bank and hedge with an outer drain W-NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.