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
- 52.42653, -8.31640
- SMR number
- LI041-038----
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 270m W of the townland boundary with Ballywire that also marks the County boundary with Tipperary. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 21m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a scarp with traces of an outer fosse from S-W-NW. Truncated at E by field boundary running N-S. Outline of heavily overgrown monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.