Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Lisnamaine Or Sycamore Fields, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnamaine Or Sycamore Fields
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08731, -7.48055
- SMR number
- CV014-049002-
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Shown on 4 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
Between 1611 and 1613, John Fishe apparently built a castle of brick and lime in a rath (CV014-049001-) in this townland. A subrectangular hollow (dims 18.4m NE-SW; 1.4m NW-SE) containing some loose masonry is visible in the interior of the rath and an earlier account (Davies 1948a, 113) suggested that this may mark the cellars of a house. The structure was abandoned in 1719. (O'Reilly 1985, 263-6, 275; Wilsdon 2010, 179-82)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 22 December 2008
References
Davies, O. 1948 The castles of county Cavan, Part 2. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 80-126.
O'Reilly, Rev. H. 1985 Lisnamaine Castle. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 6, no. 23, 236-76.
Wilsdon, B. 2010 Plantation Castles on the Erne. The History Press, Dublin
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.