Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissanode, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissanode
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46879, -7.74197
- SMR number
- WM023-065----
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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 slightly sloping land, in pasture. Monument described in 1983 as a curvilinear section of an earthen bank incorporated into a field fence which marks the townland boundary with Bryanbeg Lower probably represents the enclosing element of a possibl ringfort . The curving bank is visible from W-N-NE and there are faint traces of a levelled scarp from E-SE-S. The remains of a possible external fosse are visible. The faintest outline of a levelled bank is visible elsewhere on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.