Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Lissard, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Moat & Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73003, -7.59932
- SMR number
- LF015-031----
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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
On a low rise in pasture. Named 'Moat & Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Described in 1975 (SMR file) as the remains of a motte with a bailey to its E. The motte was encircled by a fosse with an external bank. The bailey was enclosed by a low earthen bank with a shallow external fosse. There was an entrance to the bailey at E. The monument has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.