Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Oldcourt, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcourt
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.98378, -8.20019
- SMR number
- TN009-022----
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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 rise of ground beside the driveway up to the nineteenth-century Oldcourt House. The nineteenth-century estate wall encloses a possible earlier low drystone wall (Wth 2.5m; H 0.5m) enclosing a circular area (diam. 29m N-S) with a possible entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) at S. The estate wall is approximately 10m away from the inner enclosure. A low mound of loosely piled stones occupies the W sector of the inner enclosure. A possible cashel reused as a tree-ring in the nineteenth century contemporary with the building of the big house.
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 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.