Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castleleiny, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleleiny
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.79412, -7.77912
- SMR number
- TN029-077----
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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 an E-W ridge in undulating countryside with extensive views. A circular slightly raised area (diam. 29m E-W) defined by a scarp and enclosed by a partial possible inner fosse (Wth 2-5m: D 0.5m) and outer bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.8m) with possible causewayed entrance gap (Wth 3m) at SE (Stout 1984, 22-3). This is a ringfort which utilises a natural low hillock which has been scarped and enclosed at its base resulting in an elevated interior. There is some evidence of quarrying at E. The site was classified as a ring-barrow in the Archaeological Survey of Ikerrin (Stout 1984, 22-3).
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 - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.