Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissatotan (shanid By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissatotan (shanid By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54372, -9.01469
- SMR number
- LI019-211----
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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
Atop low rise in gently undulating terrain. Interior of site has been incorporated into farmyard annex and is now used for storage of pallets, tyres, disused machinery etc., with main concrete yard and farm buildings immediately to N. Roughly circular area (34m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.9m) S->WNW. Bank, best preserved at SSW (int. H 1.6m), is heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth W->WNW. Bank has external stone-facing, similar to adjoining field walls, at WNW. Bank has been removed WNW->S.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.