TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Moated site

Killistafford, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Killistafford, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killistafford
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.52349, -7.84084
SMR number
TS061-030----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In improved pasture, on a gentle SW-facing slope. Remains of rectangular area (dims. 28m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by scarp (Wth 1.4m; H 0.35m; L 27m at N; L 28m at E; L 25m at S and L 28m at W). Levelled scarp in centre of NE-side may be associated with a possible entrance. Intervening fosse (overall Wth 5.9m; basal Wth 3.25m; D 0.1m) may be causewayed where levelled at NE. Remains of outer bank (overall Wth 5.7m; Wth at top 2.65m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.25m) at NW-end of SW-side and return at SW-end of NW-side and NW-end of NE-side. Interior slopes down gently to SW with prevailing slope.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Moated site in Tipperary South All County Tipperary South records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map