Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lysterfield, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lysterfield
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50764, -8.12542
- SMR number
- RO045-132001-
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
Marked as a rectangular feature (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 25m N-S) on the 1837 ed. and as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. An arc (C 24.7m E-W) of a bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.85m) survives WNW-ENE, with slight traces of a fosse at WNW. There is a record from 1982 of a house (RO045-132002-) as a slightly raised rectangular area (dims c. 5m x 5m; H c. 0.25m) at the centre (SMR file), which is no longer visible.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.