Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Quakerstown, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quakerstown
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.00064, -7.96557
- SMR number
- TN011-011001-
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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 SE-facing slope in undulating pastureland. A circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.77m; max. ext. H 1.8m) with a gap in the E sector (Wth 2.2). This enclosure has been used as a burial ground (TN011-011003), the oldest visible headstone dates to 1877. A rectangular annexe (dims. 19.4m NE-SW; 18.1m NW-SE) abuts the site to the NE which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m, int. H 0.27m; ext. H 1.22m) and fosse on the SE side (Wth 1.5m; D 0.22m). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) at SE directly facing a gateway into the site. A stone wall surrounds both the circular enclosure and the annexe. Along the NW wall of the annexe are the remains of a rectangular stone structure, probably the Quaker's Meeting House (TN0100-011002) marked on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. The site appears to have been a ringfort which was converted into a burial ground 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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Meeting-houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.