Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Liscam, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscam
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48455, -8.12145
- SMR number
- RO048-007001-
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 low-lying gently undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5-7.5m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 1.65-2.35m) and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7.2-7.7m; Wth of base 2.4-3m; D 1.25m). The entrance (Wth 3.2m) and causeway are at E. The burnt spreads (RO048-181001-; RO048-181003-; RO048-181005-; RO048-181006-), fulacht fia (RO048-181002-) and possible mill (RO048-181004-) are 70-200m distant SE-W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.