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Road - road/trackway

Mortlestown (Cooleagh Par.),Lismortagh, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Mortlestown (Cooleagh Par.), Lismortagh, 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
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----

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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)

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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

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

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