Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gurteen (ballingarry Par., North Riding), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gurteen (ballingarry Par., North Riding)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.04286, -8.02537
- SMR number
- TN008-016----
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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 low natural hillock in undulating countryside with poorly drained land immediately to the SW. A raised circular area (diam. 50m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank which has been mainly reduced to a scarp (ext. H 0.6-1.2m) with slight traces of an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m) best preserved at S. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 5m) at SW and a modern gap at N (Wth 5.5m). The external face of the bank at N has some evidence of drystone wall-facing.
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
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.