Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fortmoy, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fortmoy
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.04701, -8.10620
- SMR number
- TN007-019----
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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 top of a low natural hillock with extensive views. The site conists of a raised circular platform (diam. 34m N-S; H 1m) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 1.5-2.5m: D 1m) and a possible entrance gap at NW. The inner bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) is the best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 0.8m; ext. H 0.5m) is destroyed at NW by a laneway to farmyard buildings which are located immediately to the NW of the site.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.