Lismacrory Mounds

Lismacrory Mounds are a group of prehistoric mounds forming a National Monument in County Tipperary, Ireland. The site lies 2.2 km (1.4 mi) north of Ballingarry, North Tipperary, and 10 km (6.3 mi) southeast of Lough Derg. About 20 mounds, or cairns, occur in the area.

The mounds were originally assumed to be burial sites, but they are now thought to be piles of stones discarded from fulachtaí fia. Other identified structures around them include ringforts, dwellings and enclosure sites. The surviving monuments are described as a group of prehistoric mounds rather than as a single cairn.

The Lismacrory Mounds are dated by typological estimate to 3700 BCE to 2900 BCE. This dating is an estimate based on the monument type. The wider group of monuments shows that prehistoric cairns were accompanied by ringforts, dwellings and enclosed areas.

Ireland’s hilltop cairns are among its most conspicuous monuments. Many great cairns are Neolithic passage tombs built around 3000 BCE, while many others have never been excavated. Folklore often surrounds such monuments, although the surviving background specifically discusses Heapstown Cairn and Queen Maeve's Cairn rather than Lismacrory Mounds.

The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Lismacrory Mounds”. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.