What is recorded here

Ardlis is a ruined ringfort in County Limerick, reduced to a shallow scar and faint oval shadow in pasture beside Newpark House. It has lost its wall, entrance and most of its shape, but the land still holds the memory of a small defended life. What remains is enough to mark the place and imagine the people who stood there looking out across the valley.

In pasture, on slight SSE facing slope with good views E-SW, Newpark House lies 100m to the SW. Annotated ‘Ardlis’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at W and SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. Described in 1999, as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dim. 15.7m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m; Wth 0.5m) with fosse (Wth at base 3m; ext. D 0.6m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at SSE. Levelled monument visible as circular cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 November 2021

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