Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Lissard, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.41554, -8.31903
- SMR number
- LI041-036----
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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 reclaimed pasture, 70m N of the townland boundary with Castlecreagh. Glenefy House lies 300m to SE. Not indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 30m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a scarp. The monument is visible as an oval-shaped platform truncated at N by a field boundary running NE-SW on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (318) 36) taken 05-10-2002. Visible as a sub-circular shaped platform with traces of an outer fosse from E-S-W, truncated at SE by drain running NW-SE on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (318) 36) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 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.