Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Lissard, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72676, -7.60073
- SMR number
- LF015-034----
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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
Indicated as a square tree-covered enclosure on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is not recorded on the OS 25-inch plan (1911) though its four corners are marked by individual trees. It consists of a raised rectangular area (dims. c.26m N-S; c.19m E-W) enclosed by two low earthen banks with shallow intermediate fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. The internal ground level rises from the perimeter to form a low mound at the centre. It is similar to another square enclosure (LF015-039----) c. 100m to the SE and the remains probably are a landscape feautre within the demesne of Lissard House.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.