Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyspellane South, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyspellane South
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.02914, -8.12733
- SMR number
- TN007-039----
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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 an E-W ridge with extensive views. A large circular area (diam. 49m N-S) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with a wide flat-bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 3m; D 1.2m) and causewayed entrance (Wth 4.3m) at S. The inner bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 3m) is the best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 1.1m; ext. H 1.1m) and fosse are destroyed from W to N. There is a large depression covered in scrub in the E sector of the site. Drystone wall-facing along the external face of the outer bank, best preserved from S to W, may be a later nineteenth-century feature. The outer bank may be a field boundary following the line of the inner bank because the wall-footings of the stone-facing cut across the entrance gap at S.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.