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The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on In pasture, located on a rise in undulating terrain, with an expanse of bog to E. Good views generally, with a rath (MA092-030----) visible c. 100m to E, and another rath (MA092-028----) c. 250m to N. Roughly oval platform (56.4m N–S; 39.4m E–W) defined by a scarp (H 2.2m), outside which it is enclosed SE–NW by a fosse (Wth 2.6m) and outer bank (Wth 5.3m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.5m, at S). The E side of the platform has been truncated to a linear, almost vertical scarp and modified to serve as a field boundary. The fosse and outer bank are not evident at N–E except for two discrete mounds of earth (L c. 5-5.5m; H 0.8-1m) at NE which may be remnants of the outer bank. At SE–SW the outer bank is reduced to a low terrace, and at NW–N it has been cut to the vertical and modified to serve as a field fence. The rath appears to encompass a natural rise as there is pronounced elongated spine of raised ground extends through the centre/SW of the interior, with a marked slope down to N−NE and a gentler slope to SE. The original entrance is unclear, but there are low, slumped sections of scarp to N (H 1.4m) and to E (H 1.6m). The rath interior is grassy; the scarp and the outer bank are thickly ringed with blackthorn. Knox (1908, 110; 1911, 230) recorded that name of this rath as ‘Lisnadhine (Lis of the Daingen)’. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 February 2022