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
- 53.61303, -8.14497
- SMR number
- RO040-036----
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. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 54.3m N-S; 54.1m E-W) defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 4.8-7.6m; Wth of base 2.8-4.2m; int. D 1.1-1.25m; ext. D 0.4-1.1m), with a slight internal bank (int. H 0.2m) WNW-NNE and a slight outer bank (ext. H 0.2m) SSW-WNW (max. ext. diam. 68.8m E-W; 66.1m N-S). There is a causeway (Wth 4.5m) at SSE.
See the attached aerial images taken from the NE (001) and N (002)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.