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
- 53.71564, -7.45222
- SMR number
- WM002-007----
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 on a low rise of reclaimed pasture-land with good views to E & S and moderate views to N & W. Ringfort (WM002-009----) 60m to S. Circular area (diam. 48m) defined by wide low earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2-2.5m) best preserved at N where if forms part of a modern field boundary and shallow traces of a fosse with external bank visible at NW only. The interior is uneven, rising gently towards the centre from inside the bank. There is a disturbance gap in the bank on the WSW and another on the NW. A gap on the SSE looks as if it is due to disturbance also and there is a modern road leading up to it from the outside. The fosse is almost completely filled up most of the way round.
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.