Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynakill, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.91968, -7.86202
- SMR number
- TN017-007----
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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 at the N end of a natural ridge which slopes to the NW in undulating terrain. The site encompasses a natural hillock the edge of which has been dug into to provide an internal scarp and an external counterscarp bank. A circular bivallate ringfort (diam. 46.5m N-S; 45.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.86m; ext. H 0.6-1.2m), a U-shaped fosse (Wth 2.6-3.4m; D 0.2-1.08m) and an outer bank (Wth 1.8m; ext. H 0.3-1m). There is bedrock close to the surface and a lot of stone and small boulders protrude from the outer bank. The N portion of the outer bank is very denuded, the inner edge is defined by an irregular, sheer scarp of exposed bedrock, probably the result of more recent quarrying. The interior is higher than the defences downslope to the NW and are level with the exterior upslope to SE. The interior in the SE quadrant has been quite extensively quarried. The site is bisected by a fairly substantial NW-SE earthen field bank with a ditch on the SW side.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.