Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garrane (ballingarry Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrane (ballingarry Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.03158, -8.01273
- SMR number
- TN008-029----
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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 just below the summit of a hill on a SW-facing slope. A circular area (diam. 33.5m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m) and slight external fosse (Wth 3m) with a possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at E. Modern gaps occur in the bank at S and NE. A collapsed limekiln is built into the SW face of the earth and stone bank. The interior of the site slopes from N to 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.