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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41784, -8.33344
- SMR number
- LI041-068----
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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 180m E of the townland boundary with Ballynamona. A group of fourteen barrows (LI041-032001/013-) lies c. 150m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a sub-rectangular enclosure from aerial photographs taken by the ASI on 18/09/2005. Visible as a sub-rectangular area enclosed by field boundaries at S and W and by drainage ditches at N and E on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 5 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.