Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Lissavarra, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissavarra
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49608, -8.84172
- SMR number
- LI029-122----
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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 flat pasture abutting the townland boundary with Lisamota to the SW. Located 165m N of t a Children’s Burial Ground (LI030-031002-). The site is depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The curving W side of the enclosure survives in a field boundary visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The levelled monument (ext. diam. c. 32m N-S; 27m E-W) is faintly visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/03/2012 and 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 25 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.