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Enclosure

Lissylisheen, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Lissylisheen, 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
Lissylisheen
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04032, -9.19352
SMR number
CL009-001014-

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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

Situated at the N edge of a limestone plateau with the land falling away to the NE. The area is grass-covered with large glacial erratics scattered about. A circular enclosure (diam. NW-SE 85m) defined NNW-S by a substantial, moss-covered, collapsed stone wall (H 0.7m; Wth 4.1m) and from S to NNW by a low, wide earthen bank (ext. H 0.28m; int. H 0.62m; Wth 5.65m). Some possible external stone facing occurs from W to NW for c. 11m. At NE there is evidence of internal and external stone facing with a fill of medium sized boulders. A large flat slab (Wth 2.05m; H 0.63m; T 0.25m) is used as internal facing at the point. A possible entrance (Wth 4.8m) occurs at SSW. The interior is very uneven with much moss-covered natural outcropping rock. The enclosure is not immediately apparent on the ground but is visible on a high altitude Geological Survey aerial photograph (GSIAP, R 12/13) and on Digital Globe aerial photography. It is indicated by a curved line on the most recent OS maps but not indicated on any earlier editions. A field boundary that appears to be later bisects the enclosure from SW to NE and continues NE. Again this is clearer on the aerial photographs. A drystone-walled enclosure (CL009-001044-) lies c. 10m to the E. Both enclosures lie within a field system (CL009-001001-/CL005-116---*/CL008-045001*).

Revised by: Mary Tunney

Date of revision: 22 March 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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