Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Blackfort, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackfort
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.91694, -8.22579
- SMR number
- TN014-016----
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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
Situated in flat pastureland in the grounds of Lisduff House. A raised circular area (diam. 32.3m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.17m) and a deep, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.53m) with a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.6m) at NE. There have been recent attempts to build up a causeway in the W sector with small stones and earth. A large number of deciduous trees - beech, horse-chestnut and ash, grow on the bank. The site may have been reused as a tree-ring.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 198/1954).
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 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.