Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lismiraun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismiraun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88931, -9.02218
- SMR number
- MA071-132----
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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
In pasture in undulating limestone terrain, at a break of slope with a fall of ground to SW.
A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. It has been levelled and there is no visible trace at ground level.
There is a rath (MA071-131----) 150m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.