Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissahane, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissahane
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20606, -7.31825
- SMR number
- WA016-048----
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
Situated in pasture on a small knoll at the top of a N-facing slope. Subcircular scrub-covered area (dims. 44m N-S; 39m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.3m) with internal and external stone-revetment ENE-WSW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4-1.4m) elsewhere. The widened entrance (Wth 5.4m) is at ENE. The N part of the interior has been used as a dump for field stones. There is no visible fosse.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.