BROWSE
townland
Lios Raifeartaigh
genitive: Lios Raifeartaigh
(Irish)
Lisraherty
(English)

Glossary

English ring-fort, enclosure

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Centrepoint

53.897, -7.55705latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1612
Lysrought
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
1629
-----------[istigh le Enaghan]
Cotton Map
1654-56
a bogg neer a fort called Lisreaghty
CS X Leathanach: 46
1709
Lissrorty
CGn. Leathanach: 6.163.1684
1813
Lisraherty
Edgeworth
1836
Lisragherty
BS:AL
1836
Lisroferty
Crawford, Sir G.,:AL
1836
Lisraherty
Edgeworth Map (AL)
1836
Lysrought
Inq. J I:AL
1836
Lios Rathartaigh, “Raferty’s fort”
OD:AL
1836
Lios rathartaig
pl:AL
1836
...It has a Danish fort...
Desc. Rem.:AL
1908
Lisaherty, Lios a’ Rabhartaigh, “Rafferty’s fort”
MacGivney Leathanach: 164
2000
Lios Raifeartaigh = fort of Raifeartach (Ó Dálaigh): It is an imposing and very capacious fort...
MacNerney Leathanach: 74
2007
liˈsahertiˑ
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