Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnahoon, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnahoon
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not idicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57250, -8.10025
- SMR number
- RO042-056----
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
In a low-lying position in a basin. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 36.5m NE-SW; 34.4m NW-SE) defined by a fosse (at E: Wth of top 4.8m; Wth of base 1.7m; int. D 1m; ext. D 0.6m) NW-E-SSW and a drain elsewhere. There is an entrance at NE and some scrub on the perimeter NW-E-SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.