What is recorded here

Lissard Castle vanished before the twentieth century, leaving only a low rise and a memory of ivy. Coad wrote in 1832 that the ruin marked the ancient residence, yet even the OS map of 1837 reduced it to a square called Ruins. Lissard House disappeared in the 1950s, removing the last witness. What remains is a hollow place where a building refused to be forgotten, though it no longer gives itself up.

On a low rise c. 40m to the NNE of 'Lissard House'. Described by Coad (1832, 288) as the ‘ivy covered ruin of an old castle, which was the ancient residence’. Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a square building with the designation 'Ruins' in the typeface used by the OS to indicate antiquities. There are no remains now visible at ground level and the precise nature and date of this structure are unknown. 'Lissard House' was levelled in the 1950s. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 November 2012

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