Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismortagh,mortlestown (cooleagh Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismortagh,mortlestown (cooleagh Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.53579, -7.68729
- SMR number
- TS062-009----
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
In improved pasture, on an E-facing slope. A D-shaped area (dims. 38m WNW-ESE; 32m NNE-SSW along straight side to ESE) defined by a bank (overall Wth 5m; Wth at top 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.15m), best preserved from W-N-NNE and the remains of a fosse (overall Wth 4.5m; basal Wth 2m; D 0.5m) from WSW-W-NW and in the NE quadrant. The fosse has been backfilled along the straight side to the ESE and is truncated by a field boundary, running WNW-ESE, to the SSW. The interior slopes to the E.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.