Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnagaul, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnagaul
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.42846, -8.12426
- SMR number
- TS074-004----
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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 a gentle S-facing slope at the foot of Slievenamuck, in the Glen of Aherlow, under pasture. A roughly circular area (diam. 31.2m N-S; 32m E-W to field boundary) with a N-S field boundary slightly truncating or incorporating the bank in the W quadrant. This grass-covered monument is defined by a bank largely reduced to scarp (Wth 2.6m; ext. H 0.21m) and an external fosse (Wth 1.7-2.4m; D 0.15-0.7m). Bank (Wth 7.8m; int. H 0.07m; ext. H 1.3m) evident in SE-S-SW quadrant.
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.