Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Lismacsheedy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismacsheedy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10813, -9.20275
- SMR number
- CL005-018008-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within the NE quadrant of the interior of a cliff-edge fort (CL005-018002-). This house site was recorded by Westropp (1901, 277), who described it as ‘a hut D-shaped in plan, and 18 feet [c. 5.5m] internally’. No visible surface trace of it survives.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 18 January 2022
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare part II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-91.
Nearby in the register
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.