Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Druminure, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Druminure
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.00369, -8.06295
- SMR number
- TN010-012----
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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 top of high ground with extensive views. A large circular area (diam. 50m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) which has been widened, most visibly at NNW (Wth 6m) and faced externally with a drystone wall. There is an entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) at E. Two nineteenth-century farmhouses are attached to the enclosing bank at NNW and are probably contemporary with the widening of the original bank. The ringfort was reused as a garden feature in the nineteenth century.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.