Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Lissard, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72670, -7.60732
- SMR number
- LF015-033----
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 a low rise c. 40m to the NNE of 'Lissard House'. Described by Coad (1832, 288) as the ‘ivy covered ruin of an old castle, which was the ancient residence’. Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a square building with the designation 'Ruins' in the typeface used by the OS to indicate antiquities. There are no remains now visible at ground level and the precise nature and date of this structure are unknown. 'Lissard House' was levelled in the 1950s.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 November 2012
References
Coad, J. 1832 The angling excursions of Gregory Greendrake, Esq. in the counties of Wicklow, Meath, Westmeath, Longford, and Cavan. Dublin. Grant and Bolton.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.