Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Lissavoura, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissavoura
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.03256, -8.60071
- SMR number
- CO051-033----
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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
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 50m NE-SW; c. 35m SE-NW) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as rectangular field on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Rectangular area (53m NE-SW; 38m SE-NW) defined by earthen bank (H 2m) to NE and SE; low grass-covered rise (H 0.3m) to SW and NW. Bank to NE and SE incorporated into field fence system; heavily overgrown. No evidence for fosse except on SE side where external surface slopes gently down to base of bank.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.