Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Lisdooaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisdooaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pillar
- Coordinates
- 53.20746, -8.14907
- SMR number
- GA108-160----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Adjacent to a road, c. 250m to the SSW of Woburn House. This poorly preserved circular solid limestone
pillar (D c. 1.8m; H 2.6m) is constructed of roughly cut rectangular blocks with a rubble core; the latter is evident at W where a section has been removed. Traces of render are visible. According to the landowner the pillar was originally higher and may have had a conical cap. The upper part is now obscured by ivy. Two small apertures (Wth c. 0.6m) are visible midway up the pillar at E and at SE. Possibly a folly or cenotaph associated with Woburn House.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.