Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissamota, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissamota
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.49297, -8.84757
- SMR number
- LI029-120----
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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 undulating pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (43.5m N-S; 44.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.2m), incorporated into field boundary system WNW->SE (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.65m), and reduced to scarped edge SE->S (H 0.2m; Wth 4m). Stones have been dumped along top of bank WNW->NNE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.