Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Lislea (cootehill Rural Ed), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lislea (cootehill Rural Ed)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06446, -7.08470
- SMR number
- CV017-049----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not marked on any OS 6-inch map, and a castle at Lislea (430) is not marked on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8). See this web-page accessed on 8 April, 2016: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Tulloghgarvey&c=Cavan Situated near the summit of a high drumlin hill. Known as 'Castle Saunders' and thereby believed to be the site of a Saunderson stronghold (local information). There are no visible remains at ground level apart from a pile of stones.
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 revision: 11 April, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Meeting-houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.