Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnagavragh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnagavragh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51082, -8.18536
- SMR number
- RO044-070----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 471-2), and situated on a level landscape. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 37.4m E-W; 33.5m N-S) with the straight side (L 27m) at N defined by a grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5-5.5m; H 0.2-0.3m). There is no visible fosse but there is an old quarry outside the perimeter at SW, and there is an entrance (Wth 4m) at S. The large enclosure (RO044-069001-) is c. 10m to the W.
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
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.