Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lissaniska (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaniska (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90287, -9.04472
- SMR number
- MA071-086----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in rough, rush-grown pasture, in the NW corner of a modern rectilinear field.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. 20-25m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, clipped at W by a N−S field boundary and incorporated into an E−W townland boundary on its N arc; it is not shown on later map editions.
The enclosure had been levelled. A curving section of field fence (L c. 16m; Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m), outside which is a shallow fosse-like depression (Wth 2m; D 0.4m), may preserve the SSW–NNW arc of a circular enclosure. The fence is engulfed in overgrowth and difficult to examine, but it appears to be constructed of earth and stone. A very shallow curve is also evident in the intersecting E−W field boundary/townland boundary at N.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.