Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lissaniska (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaniska (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75841, -8.87100
- SMR number
- MA092-069----
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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 improved pasture, located on a rise in gently undulating terrain, with good views in all directions and overlooking Lough Crokery to NW. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map it is located on a small peninsula which jutted into the S end of the lake; by the time of the 1917 edition drainage has caused the lake levels to recede to a distance of c. 80-100m to N of the enclosure.
This possible rath is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m); only the W half is depicted on the 25-inch plan and the 1917 6-inch edition where a fosse and external bank are shown. It has been levelled; slight undulations merging with the natural contours of the rise can be traced at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.