Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnabin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnabin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52377, -7.16161
- SMR number
- WM020-086----
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 woodland immediately N of townland boundary with Lisnabin Castle (WM020-085----) 300m to W. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (dims. 31m WSW-ENE; 25m NNW-SSE). Referred to by Adams (1960) as ‘Packenham’s Fort’ and ‘Cup and Saucer’. Monument described in 1970 as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a poorly preserved bank and wide, shallow outer fosse. The bank has been quarried away on the NNE and appears to have been steepened on the interior and exterior in relatively modern times. There is a gap at SW. The original entrance is not recognisable. Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 July 2019
References
Adams, F.R.G. 1960 Killucan-some remarks on its prehistory and history. Ríocht na Mídhe 2 (2), 23-34.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.