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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
53.04366, -9.19461
SMR number
CL009-001054-

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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 E edge of a partially grass-covered limestone plateau which lies within a very large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-/CL005-116---*/CL008-045001*) that stretches from Lissylisheen to Lisdoonvarna. The land falls away to the E, providing good views from NW to S.
A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) visible on Digital Globe orthophotographs (2011-13) N-S as an arc (Wth c. 2m) devoid of outcropping karst, likely representing a rock-cut ditch and S-N as a kink in the NNE-SSW field wall that forms the townland boundary between Cahermacnachtan and Lissylisheen. A wedge tomb (CL009-001013-) lies in the N sector of the interior.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 27 September 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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