Lisnagade Ráth
Lisnagade Ráth ( Irish : Lios na gCéad - Fort of the Hundred) is a ring fort two kilometers east of Scarva in County Down in Northern Ireland . The largest and one of the best preserved raths in Ireland with an outer diameter of about 110 m is dated to 350 AD.
The center, measuring 60 m, was surrounded by three ramparts about six meters high and deep trenches. Only the traces of the outer ditch remained. In the southeast is the only entrance that interrupted the extremely rare triple moat-wall lines.
About 30 m to the north is a much smaller rath, which is connected to Lisnagade by straight walls and moats. The excavations undertaken in the 1950s are unpublished. Nearby are the Lisnavaragh Ráth and eight other Raths and the Dane's Cast wall line within a mile.
literature
- Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland: Historic Monuments of Northern Ireland. Belfast 1987 p. 93 ISBN 0-337-08180-8
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Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 59 ″ N , 6 ° 19 ′ 52 ″ W.