Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - ringwork
Shanbally (lisronagh Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanbally (lisronagh Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.41663, -7.69402
- SMR number
- TS077-013----
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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 broad flat ridge on ground sloping gently in every direction except to W, in pasture. Triangular-shaped enclosure (diam. 40m N-S; 42.2m E-W) surrounded by a stoney bank (Wth 1.2m crest, 3.7m base; int. H 0.39m; ext. H 2.3m), the outer face of which has been truncated and which falls steeply to the enclosing wide, deep fosse (Wth 6m; D 2.2m). The S quadrant is straight-sided, running E-W. The bank in the N quadrant forms a rounded point. There is some erosion of the outer face of the bank in the N and NE sector. The bank in the E quadrant has collapsed out for a length of 3m. A substantial field boundary runs concentrically with the enclosure on the W and S sides. There is no clearly defined entrance, however in the SE quadrant there is a low mound in the fosse which may have supported a bridge/drawbridge to the ringwork. This monument is depicted on Lyons (1937, 243, 248-9) map of Lisronagh, he mentions that the monument is called 'Lonergan's Fort' and was "probably originally sepulchral".
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Lyons, P. 1937 Norman antiquities at Lisronagh, Co. Tipperary. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 67, 242-9.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.