What is recorded here

Lissaroo is a deserted village in County Clare where an ancient oval enclosure still stands beneath hazel scrub. The earthen bank rises one metre inward and nearly two metres outward, marking a boundary drawn long before modern walls climbed its crest. People may have lived inside that circle, raised children, and forgotten the name of the first hand that dug the scar.

On a raised rocky platform on the E and SE slopes of a ridge under hazel scrub and at the centre of the deserted village of Lissaroo. This record was listed as a ‘Settlement deserted (possible)’ in the RMP (1996). The name of the site, given as ‘Lios an Ru’ on Robinsons map (1997), supports the presence of an enclosure of antiquity. On inspection in 1999, a possible oval enclosure (30m N-S by 25m E-W) defined by a scarped earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5-1.7m) was recorded. The bank has modern external facing from NE-SE and is surmounted by a modern wall (Wth 1.4m; H 0.4m) from N-NE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

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