Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lisnalannow, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnalannow
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57397, -8.19340
- SMR number
- RO041-042----
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
Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 154-5), and situated in a karst landscape on top of a hill. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 34m) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 4-7.5m; H 0.1-0.3m), which has been removed WSW-N. There are no visible facing-stones, and there is no evidence of an original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.