Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknamena Commons, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknamena Commons
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.71454, -8.03339
- SMR number
- TN040-001----
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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 E-facing slope of a hill in pasture. An oval bivallate enclosure (diam. 40.7m N-S; 34.5m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.75m), a U-shaped fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.74m) and an outer bank (Wth 2.9m; ext. H 0.6m). A causewayed entrance at E (Wth 4.3m) may have been widened for tractor access. The outer bank is incorporated into a field boundary at W, N and NE.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.