Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathmore (borrisokane Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore (borrisokane Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathmore
- Coordinates
- 53.00355, -8.13089
- SMR number
- TN010-001----
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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 high ground with extensive views. An impressive raised circular area (diam. 39m N-S; 50m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with wide, flat-bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 6m; D 1m) with causewayed entrance at NE. The inner bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.3-6m) is the best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 0.3m) is only visible from SE to S - elsewhere it is destroyed.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.