Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissaniska West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaniska West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissanaska Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.46057, -8.99696
- SMR number
- LI036-094----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in W-facing slope. Roughly circular area (34.5m N-S; 35.9m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.35m; ext. H 2.6m) with external fosse (D 1.2m; Wth 1.4m). Break in bank (Wth 2m) at ESE. Interior is level and under pasture. Field boundary, on NE-SW axis, skirts site NE->SW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.