Earthwork, Lisronagh, Co. Tipperary

Co. Tipperary |

Ritual/Ceremonial

Earthwork, Lisronagh, Co. Tipperary

In a field just south of a tower house in Lisronagh, County Tipperary, a low mound sits quietly beneath the grass, its roughly circular outline still legible despite being cut through by a modern field boundary.

It is not large, measuring around fourteen metres north to south and just over ten metres east to west, and rises barely half a metre above the surrounding ground. That a boundary wall should bisect it, and that faint traces of the earthwork appear to continue into the field to the west, suggests the landscape has been reorganised around it over the centuries without anyone fully registering what was being divided.

The mound is one of several earthworks in the area identified by Lyons in 1937 as belonging to the broader medieval settlement of Lisronagh, a complex that includes the tower house nearby. Tower houses, the compact fortified residences common across late medieval Ireland, were rarely isolated structures; they typically formed part of wider arrangements of enclosures, outbuildings, and boundary features, and the earthworks Lyons catalogued represent the surviving traces of that kind of organised settlement. This particular mound corresponds roughly with what Lyons recorded as site eleven in his survey, placing it within a documented pattern rather than treating it as an isolated curiosity. What function it originally served, whether as a platform, a mound associated with an earlier structure, or something else entirely, the available evidence does not say.

Rated 0 out of 5

Visitor Notes

Review type for post source and places source type not found
Added by
Picture of Pete F
Pete F
IrishHistory.com is passionate about helping people discover and connect with the rich stories of their local communities.
Please use the form below to submit any photos you may have of Earthwork, Lisronagh, Co. Tipperary. We're happy to take any suggested edits you may have too. Please be advised it will take us some time to get to these submissions. Thank you.
Name
Email
Message
Upload images/documents
Maximum file size: 100 MB
If you'd like to add an image or a PDF please do it here.

Advertisement