What is recorded here

Rathmartin is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tyone (Lisbunny parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. The 2002 inventory places its raised, roughly circular area on a northeast-facing low ridge, measuring 31 metres north-south and 36 metres east-west. A 3.4-metre inner bank, 6.5-metre U-shaped ditch, 6.5-metre berm and 2.2-metre flat-topped outer bank enclose it. The source records no visible entrance feature, although a gap in the denuded inner bank and slight causeway appear in the southeast quadrant without a corresponding gap in the outer bank. The monument has a preservation order.

Situated on the NE-facing slope of a low ridge in undulating pasture. A raised, roughly circular area (diam. 31m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.46m; ext. H 2.81m) reduced to a scarp in places, a wide, deep, U-shaped fosse (Wth 6.5m; D 1.55m), a berm (Wth 6.5m) and a broad, flat-topped outer bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.88m). No entrance feature visible. Gap in denuded inner bank and slight causeway in SE quadrant but no corresponding gap in outer bank. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 201/1954).

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