Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lissylisheen, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.