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Ringfort - rath

Lisvarrinane, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lisvarrinane, 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
Lisvarrinane
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.41149, -8.24545
SMR number
TS073-012----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

On a S-facing lower slope of Slievenamuck mountain. The Aherlow River is c. 100m to the S, in wet, rushy pasture. The ringfort (overall diam. c. 47m N-S; c. 55m E-W based on OS 6-inch map) is heavily overgrown with brambles and the interior has a lot of dead wood, it has also been planted with conifers. The monument is enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.77m) with a slight suggestion of an outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m), though this may be the result of cattle poaching while sheltering against the external bank. A field boundary runs NW-SE along the E side of the ringfort. A trackway on the OS 6-inch map which ran roughly E-W S of the monument appears to be disused, while that depicted running along its N side now follows the line of the field boundary to N and E of ringfort.

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.

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