Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathlena, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathlena
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheen Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.69389, -8.65592
- SMR number
- RO032-045001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a circular enclosure on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as 'Lisheen Fort' (Little fort). It is situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29.2m N-S; 28.2m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3-5m; int. H 0.3-0.9m; ext. H 0.8-1.1m), which is incorporated into a field bank with an outer fosse or ditch (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.2m) SW-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 2.6m) at SE and an oval mound (dims 3.8m ENE-WSW; 2.3m N-S; H 0.1-0.2m) just N of the centre. Standing stone (RO032-045002-) is 18m outside the perimeter at SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 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.