Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisduff (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisduff (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54627, -8.24682
- SMR number
- RO044-012----
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 gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40.7m N-S; 37.3m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4-5.5m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 1-1.4m) and hedge, which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) E-S. A band of nettles (Wth c. 2m) outside the bank may indicate a fosse and there is an entrance (Wth 4m) at SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.