Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissoy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissoy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50829, -7.84602
- SMR number
- WM015-021----
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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 slight natural rise in gently undulating grassland, with good views of the surrounding countryside. Ringfort (WM015-022---) 200m to SW. A slightly raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 36m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) enclosed by a low, poorly preserved earthen bank and a very shallow external fosse. The bank has been reduced to a scarp at E. Low earthen banks (Wth 1-2m) divide the interior into three uneven areas. Monument appears to have been levelled since 1978 as there no traces visible of this monument on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
See attached sketch plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.