Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dangansallagh, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangansallagh
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.89545, -7.83059
- SMR number
- TN017-054----
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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 low hillock on a N-S ridge which slopes to the SE in undulating pastureland. Indicated as a large, roughly circular enclosure on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map, however on the current (1901-05) edition only the S half is hachured while the N half appears to have been replaced by a field boundary. Although levelled, the circular outline is still discernible (diam. 29m N-S; 30m E-W) with traces of a scarp (H 0.56m), a fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.7m) and an outer bank only visible at W (Wth 2.1m; ext. H 0.55m). A semicircular or L-shaped bank (Wth 1.7m) in the interior in the NE sector may be the remnant of a later field boundary. A possible moated site (TN017-091----) is located c. 80m to the WSW.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.