Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Lissian, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissian
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88257, -8.53030
- SMR number
- RO014-009----
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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
Marked as a castle on a Longfield estate map of 1811 in the NLI (ms. 21. F. 44. (41)), and situated on the E bank of the W-E River Lung at a point where it turns N. There is no visible remains of an antiquity and no local knowledge of one. The location is occupied by a farmhouse.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.