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Enclosure

Newtown (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Newtown, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newtown (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lissaroo
Latest-edition OS map
Lissaroo (1916)
Coordinates
53.09709, -9.17782
SMR number
CL005-029----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a raised rocky platform on the E and SE slopes of a ridge under hazel scrub and at the centre of the deserted village of Lissaroo. This record was listed as a ‘Settlement deserted (possible)’ in the RMP (1996). The name of the site, given as ‘Lios an Ru’ on Robinsons map (1997), supports the presence of an enclosure of antiquity.

On inspection in 1999, a possible oval enclosure (30m N-S by 25m E-W) defined by a scarped earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5-1.7m) was recorded. The bank has modern external facing from NE-SE and is surmounted by a modern wall (Wth 1.4m; H 0.4m) from N-NE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 26 January 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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