Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lissaniska South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaniska South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16536, -8.24366
- SMR number
- GA107-144----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On the summit of a hillock in undulating grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (c. 25m N-S; c. 20m E-W); partially levelled by the time of 1946 edition. All that survives is a low bank at E. A children's burial ground (GA107-144001-) lies within the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.