Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissatunny, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissatunny
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisatunny
- Coordinates
- 52.84578, -8.17304
- SMR number
- TN021-048----
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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 N-facing slope in undulating terrain. A circular area (diam. 39m NE-SW), heavily overgrown with scrub, defined by three earthen banks with intervening fosses - an inner bank largely reduced to a scarp (H 1.22m), a fosse (Wth 9m; D 1.93m), a middle bank (Wth 6m; ext. H 2.4m), an outer fosse (Wth 5.4m; D 1.96m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.5m; ext. H 1.5m). No entrance feature visible, though a gap (Wth 3m) is broken through the middle bank at SE. A field bank transects the site at W.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.