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Lisbane
Limerick, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0685
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0685 (685)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Limerick
- Historic county
- Limerick
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lisbane
- Latitude
- 52.54391
- Longitude
- -9.04928
- Altitude
- 71 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.05 ha, 0.32 ha
- Footprint
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Earthwork Survey (1916)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database LI019-127
- National record
- record LI 019
- Wikidata
- Q31071379
Sources
References
- Westropp, T. 1916/1917. On certain earthworks and ring-works in County Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 33. 9 - 42.