Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissaniska, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaniska
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.10328, -9.10911
- SMR number
- CO029-124----
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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
In level pasture. Depicted as semicircular curve (SE->NW) in field boundary on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (33m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) E->W; scarp (H 0.4m) W->E. Bank incorporated into field boundary system; slightly altered on SW side to form straight line. South half of interior planted with mature evergreen trees. No visible surface trace of limekiln depicted at NE side of site on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 300) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 35yd; bank H c. 5ft) with about 'one-sixth of the circuit...levelled'; disused limekiln on NE side.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.