Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisduff (ballymoe By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisduff (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61132, -8.36101
- SMR number
- RO038-038----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low-lying landscape. Oval grass and rush-covered area (dims 44.7m E-W; 32.8m N-S defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.8-4.4m; int. H 0.1-0.45m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m) separated by an overgrown rounded fosse (Wth of top 7-7.8m; Wth of base 3.7-4.3m; D 0.5-0.65m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.7-5.2m; H 0.45-0.65m) SE-W-NNW, while the inner bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4-0.7m) NNE-SE. There is no identifiable original entrance (max. surviving diam. 56.8m N-S; 55.5m E-W).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.