Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissava, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissava
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.36933, -7.94819
- SMR number
- TS081-001----
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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 the flat edge of a gentle ridge which is aligned E-W and slopes to the NW to a stream at the base of the ridge, in pastureland. Another hill rises on the opposite side of the stream. Impressive bivallate ringfort, roughly circular (int. diam. 50m N-S; overall diam. 72.7m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.6m crest, 2.8m base; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.55m); deep, flat-bottomed, steep-sided fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 1.6m) and substantial, flat-topped outer earthen bank (Wth 4.9m crest, 9.2m; ext. H 2.12m). In the E quadrant. The fosse has been filled-in and the interior is flat up to the outer bank. The outer bank is generally higher than the inner bank, particularly in the S quadrant where it is surmounted by a post and wire fence. In the NNW sector the outer bank has been quarried into towards the interior. In the SW quadrant the fosse has been filled-in level with the interior, with no break in the outer bank. The fosse is very much as depicted on the 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map. There is a narrow cattle break (Wth 1.5m) in the bank in the E quadrant. There is no clear outer fosse, there is a slight dip in the ground level at the external base of the bank (Wth 3m).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.