Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathcannon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcannon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheengorm, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheengorm, hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.44723, -8.64005
- SMR number
- LI039-017----
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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, immediately N of townland boundary with Cloonbrien, an enclosure (LI039-018----) lies 220m to E. Annotated ‘Lisheengorm’ on historic OSi maps. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a sub-circular raised platform defined by a scarp. Partially levelled monument shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) defined by a scarp with fosse from N-E-SE and SW-W-N and bank from SSW-W-N-NE. Truncated at S by townland boundary running E-W, intersected at SE by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as ‘one of ten ancient forts…one named Lisheengorm’, ‘near the SW boundary of Rathcannon townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree 139, 141). Scrub-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 April 2021
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.