Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doughkill, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doughkill
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06123, -7.97391
- SMR number
- TN008-006----
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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 flat pasture in undulating countryside with limited views in all directions. Wheeler (OPW 1955) described the site as a circular ringfort (int. diam. 50m) enclosed by an earthen bank (H 1m) with no external fosse visible. The site was destroyed during a land reclamation scheme in the late 1950s. An aerial photograph (CUCAP, ATC 74) shows clear outline of a large circular ringfort. Not visible at ground level.
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.