Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Tankardstown South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardstown South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40448, -8.61169
- SMR number
- LI047-012004-
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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 pasture 30m S of the townland boundary with Ballygubba. Within the excavated ring ditch (LI047-012005-), cut into Neolithic House Site 2 (LI047-012002-) and 30m W of excavated Neolithic house Site 1 (LI047-012001-). Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. The ring ditch was identified in 1989 during excavation of House 2 (LI047-012002-) by Christine Tarbett and Margaret Gowen and was described as follows; ‘The inner ring ditch had an external diameter of c. 5m. It averaged 1m-1.2m wide and 0.6m-0.8m deep with a very varied sectional profile ranging from a steep V-section to a gently sloping U-section. It lay beneath soils which were indistinguishable from subsoil with no archaeological inclusions. These have been interpreted as upcast mound material from the outer ring ditch' (Tarbett and Gowen 1990, 38-9).
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 1 September
References
Gowen, M. and Tarbett, C. 1990 Tankardstown South, Co. Limerick. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1989, 38-9. Wordwell, Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.