Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismakeery, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismakeery
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismakeery- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57499, -8.98959
- SMR number
- LI019-070----
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 pasture, atop limestone ridge, terrain falls away to W into river valley. Roughly circular area (38.4m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 2.7m). Bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 3.4m), with sheer external face, becomes scarp-like along E side. Entrance (Wth 2.9m) at SSW. Fosse is covered with nettles along base and sides. Interior is under pasture and slopes down very slightly to NW. Field boundaries abut bank at NW and SE cutting fosse. Graveyard (LI019-06902-) 10m to N. (Westropp 1016-17, 30)
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.