Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Lisquinlan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisquinlan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.89358, -7.97973
- SMR number
- CO077-062----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on slight S-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular tree-planted area on the lawn of Lisquinlan House. Level subcircular area (28m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by fosse (D 0.9m). Field fence running E-W skirts fosse at N. Possible one of the two 'lisses' referred to by Fitzgerald (1858, 23) and Coleman (1913, 190); the second is to the NE (CO077-045---).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.