Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughourna, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughourna
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.90649, -8.19796
- SMR number
- TN014-054----
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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 on a NE-facing slope in undulating ground. A raised D-shaped area enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.3m; int H 0.2m; ext. H 1.7m), a fosse (Wth 5.7m; D 1.2m) and an outer bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.95m). Remains of a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.8m) at E. A gap in the inner and outer banks at N was probably to allow access from the old farmstead, now deserted. In the SW quadrant an area of the inner bank has been quarried into - the outer bank in this sector consists of a drystone wall revetment against a clay bank.
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
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.