Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Liscam, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscam
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48723, -8.12060
- SMR number
- RO048-006----
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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
Located on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. An irregularly oval, domed and grass-covered area (dims 93m NE-SW; 56m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank best preserved N-ESE (at NE: Wth 6.5m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.85m), with slight traces of an outer fosse (at NE: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.3m) NNW-NE. The perimeter survives as a low bank (at SW: Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.45m) with slight traces of a possible inner fosse or silted drain (Wth 0.7m) S-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance. The perimeter is disturbed by quarrying ESE-S and overlain by two conjoined rectangular paddocks (dims 8.7m x 4m; 12m x 8m) defined by earthen banks at NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.