Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lissatotan (connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissatotan (connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53633, -9.02951
- SMR number
- LI019-205----
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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 marshy pasture, near base of gentle SE-facing slope. Oval area (52m N-S; 72m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 2m). Bank (int. H 0.8m ext. H 0.75m) best preserved W->N. Dip in bank (Wth 2.4m) at SE; cattle breaks at SSE (Wth 1.5m) and WSW (Wth 2.9m). Waterlogged fosse best preserved NE->E, is fed by leat from stream at SE. Slight trace of counterscarp bank along SE arc (H 0.25m). Interior under pasture; sub-rectangular area (15m N-S; 14m E-W) against internal bank face at E enclosed by slightly curved earthen bank (H 0.4m). W half of interior higher than remainder with low earth-and-stone bank (H 0.3m) on a rough N-S axis separating level difference.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.