Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissowen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissowen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60394, -8.21738
- SMR number
- LI016-021----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 undulating pasture, townland boundary with Toomaline Upper lies immediately to S. Enclosure (LI016-022----) lies approx. 85m to NW and Tobergal lies 80m to W. Not depicted on OS maps. Identified by the ASI in 2003 as a circular-shaped feature visible on aerial photography (ASIAP 354, 20). Monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 40m E-W; 38m N-S) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 13 July 2020
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.