Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismacaffry, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismacaffry
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71462, -7.45247
- SMR number
- WM002-009----
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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 the SSE side of a low natural rise of ground on reclaimed pasture-land. Ringfort (WM002-007----) 65m to N, ringfort (WM002-008----) 220m to SSW, ringfort (WM002-006----) 340m to W. Oval-shaped area (diam. 41m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a low bank mainly reduced to a scarp and shallow external fosse with no entrance feature visible. Old cultivation ridges run NW-SE across the interior of the monument.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.