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
- 52.54655, -9.00915
- SMR number
- LI019-217----
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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, on break on gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (17.5m N-S; 16.7m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.2m; Wth 1.2m) with external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 0.8m). Fosse best defined SSW->WNW and elsewhere more defined by band of darker grass than dip in ground. Interior slopes down gently towards centre and is under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.