Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissard, County Limerick, Ireland
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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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 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.