Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhaden, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhaden
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.00078, -8.11935
- SMR number
- TN010-002----
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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 rise of ground with extensive views. A large impressive ringfort consisting of a raised circular area (diam. 35m N-S) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with wide flat-bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 3-4m; int. D 2.5m) and a causewayed entrance (Wth 5.5m) at SSE. The outer bank (Wth 3.5-4.5m ext. H 1.5m) is intersected by a modern road at N while the inner bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2-3m) is better preserved and gently slopes into the interior. A nineteenth-century burial ground is located outside the outer bank to the E of the ringfort.
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
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.