Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Mortlestown (cooleagh Par.),lismortagh, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mortlestown (cooleagh Par.),lismortagh
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53659, -7.67933
- SMR number
- TS062-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In improved pasture, on a SW-facing slope. Remains of a linear trackway (total L c. 400m) running NE-SW, from a public road across field towards Mortlestown Castle (TS062-011----) which lies c. 150m to the NE. It is depicted on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map as a hachured trackway but is not indicated on the 2nd (1905) edition. It traversed two townlands, the lower (L c. 180m), less preserved section from the public road is in Lismortagh and the upper portion (L c. 280m) is in Mortlestown. It is best defined along the central portion as a raised level, linear area ((L c. 100m; Wth 4m; max. H 0.1m to NE; H 0.2m to SW) with a linear fosse (Wth 5.1-5.5m; D 0.15-0.2m) and the remains of an outer bank (Wth c. 2m; ext. H c. 0.1m) on either side. Where the monument has been levelled it is traceable as a spread wide (Wth 8m) defined by a fosse (Wth 5.1m; D 0.25m to NE; Wth 5m; D 0.05m on SW) on either side.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.