Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tankardstown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardstown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.82145, -6.67209
- SMR number
- CW009-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Circular slightly sloping area (diam. 47m) surrounded by broad-based bank with external fosse. Entrance at E. Fosse has been recut at NE-E. Adapted and planted as tree ring.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.