Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisbride, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisbride
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61172, -8.15519
- SMR number
- RO040-035001-
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 rise in a low-lying landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 41m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.35-0.65m) W-N, and a fosse (Wth of base 2.1-2.8m; ext. D 0.4-0.6m) N-S-W. There is a causeway (Wth 2m) at S. A rectangular enclosure (int. dims 17.5m E-W; 12m N-S) at W defined by a masonry wall contains a 19th century vault, and the enclosure is known locally to have been used as a children's burial ground (RO040-035002-) (OS Name Book), but there is no evidence of other burials.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSNB 25-inch. Ordnance Survey Name Books compiled in the course of the 1:2500 survey of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.