Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissard, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Parkalassa Fort, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Parkalassa Fort, Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.42314, -8.31779
- SMR number
- LI041-037----
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 300m W of a local road. Annotated ‘Parkalassa fort’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is depicted as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 42m) defined by a scarp with traces of an outer fosse from NE-E and from SE-W-NW. Outline of shrub covered monument with an outer fosse visible on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (317) 29) taken 05-10-2002. and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (317) 29) 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.