Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Lissaleen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaleen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.58555, -8.76096
- SMR number
- LI021-013----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In gentle undulating pasture with moderate view in all directions, 170m NE of the townland boundary with Kilgobbin. Sunday Well (LI021-012----) located 264m to NW. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown as a raised circular-shaped platform (approx. diam. 26m) defined by a scarp on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. No surface remains visible. Levelled monument not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020
See attached Google earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.