Siemap.xml appearing in SERP

[Socialdude]

My sitemap.xml was appearing in the google serp for certain keywords (&  not my actual page onsite). Please see image.

I recently blocked my sitemap.xml with a robots.txt exclusion but now the sitemap.xml is not getting crawled in google webmaster. Is this the correct method of excluding the sitemap.xml for the serp?

User-agent: *
Disallow: /assets/cache/
Disallow: /assets/docs/
Disallow: /assets/export/
Disallow: /assets/import/
Disallow: /assets/modules/
Disallow: /assets/plugins/
Disallow: /assets/snippets/
Disallow: /manager/
Disallow: /sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://bryansryan.ie/sitemap.xml

Any suggestions what should be done here? thanks.

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[SuperlativB]

Is it ranking for some keywords or did you simply search for you sitemap? In that case I really dont see the problem. Then I rather google indexed my sitemap.

[Socialdude]

from the image you will see I googled - Kyocera Black and White Printers but the sitemap.xml is coming up in the SERP and not my actual page. It's pointless having the sitemap.xml appear in the SERP.

[wojkwasi]

you could try blocking via x-robots in the htaccess file:

http://www.blackdog.ie/blog/remove-sitemaps-from-serps/