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  • Lisnagade Fort

    Topics:
    • Historic environment

    Lisnagade Road, Scarva Road
    Banbridge
    BT32 3QD
    United Kingdom

    Contact

    Phone: 028 9082 3207
    Email: scmenquiries@communities-ni.gov.uk

    Additional Information

    Open to the public: Yes, entry is free (Sometimes public access is restricted due to works for example. Check before you visit)
    View on the Historic Environment Map Viewer
    SM number: DOW 033:009
    View details on the NI Sites & Monuments Record (NISMR)

    About Lisnagade Fort

    This is one of Northern Ireland’s most impressive earthworks, a rath with three massive banks and ditches (trivallate), partly planted with trees to form a landscape feature. In 1832 the ditches were apparently cleaned out, and in places they hold water in wet weather. The original entrance to the south-east is marked by breaks in the banks and causeways over the ditches. Some excavation was done in 1950 but was not published. To the north, linked by banks and ditches, is a small circular rath excavated in 1953. This work showed that a square house was succeeded by a rectangular barn. The entrance was shown to be on the north side. Part of the line of the Dane’s Cast linear earthwork runs close by, south of the fort.

    Other historic places you can visit:

    • Love Heritage NI
    Lisnagade Fort
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