What is recorded here

Lisduff is a D-shaped ringfort on a low pasture rise beside the Ballyveloge boundary stream, marked on the 1840 map and still showing its earth bank, fosse and outer ridge. It has the flat eastern side and broad curved western form of a middle-age plectrum fort, though the western gap may be later damage. Cattle may have grazed around it for centuries, unaware that the level interior once held hearths, doors and decisions.

On a low rise in pasture 75m W of a stream that marks both the townland boundary with Ballyveloge. Annotated 'Lisduff' on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. Present remains consist of a slightly raised roughly D-shaped area (approx. diam. 56m N-S, 46m E-W) with straight side at E (approx. L 65m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.2m; base Wth. 4.1m), fosse (base Wth. 2.6m) and an outer bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.3m; base Wth. 4.5m) with a gap (Wth. 3.5m) at W which does not appear to be original. The outer bank survives from NE through S to W and elsewhere is visible as a dry stone wall. The interior is level. Well preserved monument visible today on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019 with field boundaries intersecting the site at W and N. The sub-triangular shape of the monument is similar in morphology to the 10-13th century plectrum-shaped ringfort/ringwork (LI006-092006-) excavated in the townland of Newtown, Co. Limerick. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 18 June 2020

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