Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisfunshion, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisfunshion
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.27955, -8.06990
- SMR number
- TS086-026----
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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 N-facing slope, just off crest of hill, in undulating pastureland. Ringfort not marked on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map but indicated as roughly circular area on the 1907 ed. The N half of the ringfort has been levelled. The remaining S half (diam. 27m E-W) is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.8m crest, 3.9m base; int. H 0.73m; ext. H 1m) and flat-bottomed outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.7m). The interior is heavily overgrown with brambles with scrub on top of surviving bank.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.