Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismacaffry, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismacaffry
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71533, -7.45857
- SMR number
- WM002-006----
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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 on ESE facing slope of low rise of ground with excellent views to N, E & SSE. Circular area (diam. 35m) defined by a low bank of earth and stones which has been steepened from SSE-S-SW where it forms part of a modern field boundary with wide steep flat bottomed fosse. No clear entrance feature visible. Large portions of the enclosing bank has been quarried away at NNW & ENE. The ground outside the bank has been disturbed by quarrying also on the W. Slight traces of old cultivation ridges aligned NNE-SSW running across the interior.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house nunnery - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.