Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garrykennedy, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrykennedy
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.89381, -8.35450
- SMR number
- TN013-012----
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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 a break in a NE-facing slope in rolling pastureland with another possible ringfort (TN013-011) c. 40m to the NW. Indicated as a circular enclosure defined by a bank on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and as a roughly circular hachured area on the latest ed. The site has been levelled but slight remains are indicated by a break in the slope and the remains of a curving scarp. A field boundary now crosses the field and transects the site. The platform is c. 20m N-S along the hedgerow which is a smaller diameter than would be expected from its depiction on the latest ed. OS 6-inch map.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.