Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissaneaville, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaneaville
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61932, -8.26817
- SMR number
- RO039-050----
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
At the crest of the S-facing slope of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 57.2m E-W; c. 55m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.6-5.1m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.8-1.3m) WSW-N-ESE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m) S of an overlying E-W field bank and ditch. There is a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.25m) ENE-ESE and a fosse (Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 2.6m; D 1m) and outer bank (Wth 3.6m; H 0.15m) WSW-NNW. The entrance in the inner bank (Wth 3.4m) is at NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.