Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Lahesseragh (nenagh Par.),shesheraghkeale, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lahesseragh (nenagh Par.),shesheraghkeale
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.84939, -8.21907
- SMR number
- TN020-078----
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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 flat pasture in level terrain. A square raised platform (dims. 30m N-S x 30m E-W) enclosed by earth-covered wall-footings (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) best visible at NW and a wide external fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.8m) with traces of a possible outer bank now utilised as a field fence. Possible causewayed entrance at SSE. Evidence of low wall-footings in SE sector of platform.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.