What is recorded here
Lisgordan in County Limerick once held a fifty-metre earthen ringfort, now reduced to a scarce five-metre scarred edge on a SE-facing slope. The rest has been levelled into pasture, but that stubborn fragment still marks the circle's true line. It may have been a home, a boundary, or a claim of ownership written in soil. The land kept the shape long enough for the 1841 survey to record it before forgetting the rest.
In pasture, on break in SE-facing slope down to stream valley. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m), has been levelled. However, short section of scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 5.4m) is still evident SE->S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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