Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - ringwork
Castlemoyle North,thurlesbeg, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlemoyle North,thurlesbeg
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathancooleen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathancooleen
- Coordinates
- 52.56128, -7.89542
- SMR number
- TS053-038----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In grassland on top of a high rise of ground on SE facing slope with good views in all directions. Overgrown but impressive monument consisting of a raised circular area (int. diam. approx. 40m E-W) enclosed by a high, steep-sided earth and stone bank (base Wth 6m; top Wth 1.8m; ext. H 1-5m; int. H 0.5-1m), fosse (base Wth 2.5m; top Wth 8m; ext. D 1m) and wide flat-topped earth and stone bank (base Wth 7m; top Wth 5m; ext. H 1m; int. H 0.7-1m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 3.5m) at SE. Impressive but overgrown monument making detailed examination impossible. Scooped out interior with gently sloping inner face and steep-sided external face of enclosing bank. Outer face of bank is at its highest at N where it is very defensive and very steep which providing the monument with a very defensive element. The defensive nature of monument would suggest it is a ringwork. Modern road intersects fosse destroying outer bank at E on a N-S axis.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.