Lios na Leanbh - Hachured — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Lios na Leanbh is a ruined child-kill ring in Limerick and Cork boundary pasture, not a heroic fortress. Its shallow bank and scarp still mark a small circular place where infants may have been set aside when adult life became too heavy to carry. The land has since been grazed, mapped and forgotten, but the name preserves the cruelty and tenderness of that lost choice.

In improved pasture 165m E of the townland boundary with Derrylahan and the County boundary with Cork. Annotated ‘Lisnalanniv’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is depicted as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) enclosed by a bank from E-SW and at NW reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The scarp is incorporated into a field boundary from SW-W. Annotated 'Lios na Leanbh' (fort of the children/enclosure of the infants) on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map which may suggest that ringfort was reused as a children's burial ground. Visible as an overgrown area delimited by trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 19 November 2021

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