Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathcannon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcannon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44704, -8.63611
- SMR number
- LI039-018----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 pasture, at the rear of two modern dwellings, ringfort known locally as 'Lisheengorm' (LI039-017----) lies 220m to the W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular shaped area (dims. c. 20m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by a field-boundary. Not shown as an antiquity on this map but as a small sub-rectangular shaped field. Not marked on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, likely that the small field levelled between these map dates. In 2000 test excavations were carried out under licence No. 00E0840 by Rose Cleary to the S of the enclosure and no archaeological features or finds were uncovered (Cleary 2002, 201). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Remain of a small post-medieval field and not the remains of an antiquity.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 April 2021
References
Cleary, R.M. 2002 Rathcannon. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 201 (No. 608). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.