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Ringfort - rath

Lissard, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lissard, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lissard
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured, 484 ft. OD
Latest-edition OS map
Lissard, Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.42232, -8.32614
SMR number
LI041-034----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 wet pasture, 50m S of the townland boundary with Ballylooby. Annotated 'Lissard' on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is depicted as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp. The monument is clearly visible as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 22m NE-SW; 19m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank with fosse on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (317) 33) dated 05-10-2002 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (317) 33) and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 14 July 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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