Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisready (Cripps), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisready (Cripps)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57323, -9.18676
- SMR number
- LI018-021----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At W end of low rise, in undulating pasture. Roughly circular area (19.5m NW-SE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m) with noticeable flattened top (Wth 0.6m). Site is covered by overgrowth of trees and bushes, especially dense on W side. Field boundaries abut enclosure at N, S and NNW. Immediately outside bank at NW is small shed, the construction of which removed parts of exterior face of bank on that side.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.