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Castle - ringwork

Castlemoyle North,Thurlesbeg, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - ringwork, Castlemoyle North, Thurlesbeg, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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