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Ringfort - rath

Lisnamuck, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lisnamuck, 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
Lisnamuck
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.35646, -7.85398
SMR number
TS082-034----

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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

Just of the crest of a hill on a S-facing slope in undulating pasture. D-shaped ringfort (diam. 36m N-S; 42m E-W), the N side may have been straightened to form the present field boundary. This N bank is very overgrown with scrub and nettles. The bank (Wth 1.6m crest, 3.7m base; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) reduces in height downslope in the S quadrant. There are a lot of stones visible in the bank in the SE quadrant. Cattle poaching has denuded the grass cover on the banks and the interior is badly cattle poached. There is white thorn growing around the bank and a large mature beech in the centre of the interior. There is no evidence of an external fosse on N, E and W sectors, however, there is a very shallow, possible fosse (Wth 3-4m; D 0.1m) in the S quadrant. A gap in the bank in the E quadrant is caused by cattle. In the S quadrant a gap (Wth 3.6m) used by cattle may be the original entrance.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 22 January 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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