What is recorded here

Inishlosky and Lisheen Grave Yard are recorded as separate places, but distance alone does not separate them in memory. The oval earthwork, the nearby castle, the bridge and the island church may have belonged to one lived landscape rather than several map entries. People may have moved between them for prayer, burial and everyday life, carrying identity from one place to the other. What is missing is not the truth but the shape of that relationship.

In grassland, 50m S of the River Shannon and 450m E of a castle (LI001-014----) and O'Brien's Bridge (LI001-005----/CL054-004----). The island of Inishlosky on which a church (CL054-007001-) and graveyard (CL054-007002-) stands lies 100m to NE. Oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 45m N-S x 27m E-W) annotated 'Lisheen Grave Yard' on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map which is visible today as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. The enclosing element of the graveyard on the E side forms the townland boundary with Fairyhall. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2019

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