Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tyone (lisbunny Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tyone (lisbunny Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathmartin
- Coordinates
- 52.85772, -8.17756
- SMR number
- TN021-044----
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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 the NE-facing slope of a low ridge in undulating pasture. A raised, roughly circular area (diam. 31m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.46m; ext. H 2.81m) reduced to a scarp in places, a wide, deep, U-shaped fosse (Wth 6.5m; D 1.55m), a berm (Wth 6.5m) and a broad, flat-topped outer bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.88m). No entrance feature visible. Gap in denuded inner bank and slight causeway in SE quadrant but no corresponding gap in outer 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
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 201/1954).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Weir - regulatingunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Fratres Cruciferiunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.