Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissagallan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissagallan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66612, -8.24192
- SMR number
- RO035-075----
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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 slight N-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 29.8m N-S; 28.2m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4.2m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 0.25-0.45m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m) W-NE and by a scarp (H 0.8m) SSE-W. The straight E side has been truncated by a scarp (H 0.2m) associated with a N-S road. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Archaeological testing (07E0325) just to the SW failed to produce any related material (Morahan 2010a).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Morahan, L 2010a Lissagallan. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of arc archaeological excavations in Ireland, 414, No. 1501. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.