Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Lismanny, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismanny
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caldragh Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caldragh Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.26497, -8.17878
- SMR number
- GA100-126001-
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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
In an area of undulating pastureland. This oval enclosure (98m N-S; 85m E-W), which encompasses a hummock, is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8.8m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.25m) from S to SW; elsewhere a scarp (H 0.8-1.5m) forms the enclosing element. The latter is partially denuded from E to S where it planted with walnut trees. A gap at N (Wth 5.3m) may be original. The interior rises towards the centre. A narrow NE-SW running drain cuts across it from ESE to S. There is a children's burial ground (GA100-126002-) in the W half. It is surrounded by mature trees. The large size of the enclosure and presence of the children's burial ground suggest it may be an early ecclesiastical enclosure.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 27 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.