Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissaneaville, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaneaville
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61393, -8.27088
- SMR number
- RO039-093----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in a low-lying landscape. Subrectangular or D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 38.5m NNE-SSW; 38.4m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1m) SW-W-NE, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.3m) SW-W-NE, visible as a band of lush vegetation (Wth 1.8-2m) NW-NE. The enclosure is truncated by a NNE-SSW field bank and drain at E and cut back by a low quarry (H 0.5m) at S. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.