Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygibbon,graigue (ballygibbon Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygibbon,graigue (ballygibbon Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.90272, -8.12201
- SMR number
- TN015-099----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on a S-facing slope with the E half in rough pasture and the W half on a golf course. Indicated on both 1st and 2nd ed. OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure, bisected on a N-S axis by a townland boundary. The E half of the enclosure (diam. c. 27m N-S) is defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth c. 1.5m), overgrown with scrub. The W half has been levelled and the area landscaped to provide a tee on a golf course. The interior slopes to the S.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.