Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Liscartan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscartan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66502, -6.72398
- SMR number
- ME025-012----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise in a gently undulating landscape, and at the crest of a gentle slope down to a N-S section of the River Blackwater which is c. 150m distant and c. 5m lower. This was once on the demesne of Liscartan House (ME025-009002-) c. 550m to the NNW and is in full view of Rathaldron House (ME025-11----) c. 270m to the NNE, on the other side of the river. It is depicted as a small copse on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a clump of trees on the 1908 edition. This is a grass-covered circular mound of earth and stones (diam. 23m; H 2.5m) that supports two trees. There are quarry holes on the NW side.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 July 2007
Revised: 29 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.