Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Riverstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Riverstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- The Liss
- Latest-edition OS map
- The Liss (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.86306, -6.53381
- SMR number
- LH014-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in low-lying ground, the site consisted of a mound similar to Castleguard Motte (Dawson's Demesne, LH017-012001-) according to Tempest (1952b, part III, 147) who said that it was levelled about one hundered years before he remarked on it. It is also referred to in the OS Letters as being a small fort called 'the Liss' about a quarter of a mile NE of Ardee (Anon. 1922, 137).
The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 July 2007
References
Tempest, H.G. 1952 Gossiping guide to Co. Louth (3 parts). Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
Anon. 1922 Louth Ordnance Survey Letters. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 5, 2, 127-37.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.