Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismoyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismoyle
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indictaed
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50078, -8.15929
- SMR number
- RO045-161----
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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
At the crest of the NW-facing slope of a broad hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.5m NE-W; 35.6m NW-SE) defined by a poached earthen bank and hedge (Wth 4-4.4m; int. H 0.5-0.65m; ext. H 1.4-1.5m), with an outer fosse (at SW: Wth of top 4.2m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.8m) S-W-N. The entrance (Wth 1.1m) is at N, and some low scarps in the interior are the remains of an overlying field system which does not survive outside the monument.
See the attached aerial image taken from the SE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.