Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newtown (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.