What is recorded here

Conifer plantations are smothering Lissard, but beneath the needles a scarped oval still holds the hilltop above Limerick pasture. The ringfort is thirty-five metres across, with a cut edge one metre high and four metres wide. That is small enough to walk around in a minute, yet large enough to keep a household, a herd or a hidden agreement inside its own border. The conifers did not appear casually. Someone planted them across the memory, perhaps to stop the ring from being seen or used.

Situated atop a hill overlooking rolling pasture. Depicted on the 1924 OS 6-inch as an oval area (c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a scarped edge, and named 'Lissard' . The scarp (Wth 4.2m; H 1.1m) is now obscured by recently planted conifers. The interior surface is relatively even and partially covered by scrub vegetation. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 April 2013

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