Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Attyflin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Attyflin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lissard, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissard, Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.59238, -8.71609
- SMR number
- LI012-088----
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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 pasture, on the demesne lands of Attyflin House located 1km to S. Annotated ‘Lissard’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Depicted as an enclosure on the 1897 OS 25-inch map where it is shown as a raised circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 15m, approx. ext. diam. 21m) surrounded by trees with a disused lime-kiln 10m to S. Outline of tree-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. This orthophoto shows remnant field boundaries to the E and NE as depicted on the 1840 OS map.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 22 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.