Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lissard, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.41869, -8.32592
- SMR number
- LI041-035----
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, 12m W of a watercourse. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised kidney-shaped area (dims. c. 19m NE-SW; 9m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with an external fosse from N-E. Faint trace of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Possible fulacht fia.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 14 July 2021
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.