Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Abbeville, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeville
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08045, -8.07010
- SMR number
- TN004-026----
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
Situated on a natural rise of ground in low-lying undulating countryside. A poorly preserved ringfort with a silage pit in the NE sector and a spoil heap in the NW sector. The present remains consist of a large circular area (approx. diam. 50m) enclosed by a well-preserved earthen bank (ext. H 2m) and external fosse with two directly opposite gaps at N and S. These gaps are the remains of a laneway to the nearby big house which traversed the ringfort on a N-S axis as shown on the 1843 ed. OS 6-inch map. The site was inaccessible at the time of visit due to poor underfoot conditions.
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
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.