Lisnagade is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.3330°, -6.3310°.

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Lisnagade

Lisnagade in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Lisnagade is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Lisnagade (from Irish Lios na gCéad 'ringfort of the hundred') is a large multivallate earthen ringfort, three miles west of Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, just off the Scarva road. Lisnagade Fort rath and annex are State Care Historic Monuments in the townland of Lisnagade, in Banbridge District.

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According to the description of Scarva from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837, " Lisnagade, or "the fort of a hundred," is one of the most extensive and best-preserved of its kind: it consists of treble ramparts and intrenchments; the entrance is from the east, leading into an extensive circular enclosure, whence are obtained prospects of the entire country for many miles around, and a great number of forts or raths are seen, from which circumstance it is supposed this fort took its name, being the chief or centre of a hundred others: the fosses on every side are very deep, and it is remarkable that they are all paved at the bottom with rounded pebbles set in clay. In…

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