Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lisín An óráin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisín An óráin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37262, -9.03726
- SMR number
- GA069-028----
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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
On SW-facing slope. Marked on OS Fair Plan as a hachured circle and labelled 'Fort' but not marked on OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace survives; the area has been recently forested.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower house1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.