Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lewagh Beg,lewagh More, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lewagh Beg,lewagh More
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.70838, -7.84231
- SMR number
- TN041-005----
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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
Located on a NW-facing slope in pasture. A circular area (diam. c. 33m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an inner bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.66m), a wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 1.18m) and an outer bank (Wth 1.9m; ext. H 0.56m). A roadway running close to the E and S sides truncates the defences of the E sector. The bank at this point has been almost completely levelled and the outer bank has been incorporated into or removed by the roadway boundary. Entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) downslope 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.