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Ringfort - rath

Lisheenloughtin,Leitrim (Ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lisheenloughtin, Leitrim, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lisheenloughtin,Leitrim (Ballintober South By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.71356, -8.17162
SMR number
RO035-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Towards the bottom of a gentle SW-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 41m N-S; 34.5m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 4m; Wth of top 1.5m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.1m) separated by a rounded fosse (at W: Wth of top 7.2m; Wth of base 3.4m; D 0.5m) from an outer flat-topped bank (at W: Wth of base 4.7m; Wth of top 1.5m; H 0.45m) that is only evident SW-N. The monument is overlain by a NNE-SSW drystone field wall and townland boundary with Leitrim townland towards its W edge, and the inner bank is reduced to a low scarp (H 0.1-0.25m) N-ENE and to a slighter bank (at ESE: Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.7m) ENE-SW. The fosse and outer bank can barely be traced ESE-SW, and there is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO035-018----) is c. 160m to the NNW and rath (RO035-021----) is c. 210m to the NE.

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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