Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Lisanisk, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisanisk
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97435, -6.70106
- SMR number
- MO031-131----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 03E0891). Located on the S slope of a low drumlin. A number of pits forming no coherent pattern were excavated. Possibly associated with the rath excavated to the N (MO031-130----). (Coughlan T. 2006, 398-9)
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
References
Coughlan, E. 2006, Site 107, Lisanisk 1 Possible late medieval land clearance In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 398-9 (1489). Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.