How to map to ES type "ip" properly?

Hello

use logstash+elasticsearch+kibana all in version 6.4 on a Centos7 with latest updates

I have an issue with a mapping for ip-type in elasticsearch. I read that this cannot be done via convert in logstash and has to be applied by a logstash template to elasticsearch.
So I set a mapping in the respective template file like

"clientip":{
"type":"ip"
},

and restarted logstash.
After checking the index today I saw that clientip is still considered text by elasticsearch

"clientip":{"type":"text","fields":{"keyword":{"type":"keyword","ignore_above":256}}}

So how can it be achieved that this field is considered of type ip?
Or is this any issue because that field formerly was of type string before I wanted to change it to ip?

Thanks for any help

tobi

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