Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Noan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Noan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.57125, -7.75757
- SMR number
- TS053-049----
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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
On top of a low rise of ground in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. Poorly preserved ringfort consisting of a raised circular area (int. diam. 36m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.6m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m) mainly reduced to a scarp. S quadrant of interior has been quarried away and the inner bank is intersected by the modern road at W on a N-S axis.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.