Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballywilliam (Castletownarra Par.),Landsdown, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballywilliam (Castletownarra Par.),Landsdown
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.88362, -8.37169
- SMR number
- TN019-009----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a W-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area overlooking Lough Derg to the W. An old laneway leads up to a large circular area (diam. 50m N-S) enclosed by a tree-lined earth and stone bank (Wth 0.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5-2m) and wide external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m). No entrance feature visible. A nineteenth-century farmhouse is built into the W face of the enclosure with external stone-facing of bank best visible at E. This may have been a ringfort reused as a garden feature for the nineteenth-century house and later planted with evergreen trees.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.