Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnalegan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnalegan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68634, -8.30424
- SMR number
- RO035-047----
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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 WNW-ESE ridge. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 43.4m NE-SW; 42.7m NW-SE; H 0.7-1.4m) with traces of a bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.4m) at S, but the perimeter is severely quarried everywhere else. It is defined now by a flat-bottomed, reed-covered, and widened fosse (Wth of top 13.3-15.1m; Wth of base 6.6-12m; D 0.65-1.4m). There is a slight external bank (Wth 2.5-4m; H 0.15-0.45m) which is probably secondary as it blocks the causeway (Wth 3m) which has a paved surface across the fosse at SE (max. ext. dims 74m NE-SW; 73m NW-SE).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.