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
- 52.88293, -8.34500
- SMR number
- TN019-013----
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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 an E-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A circular area (diam. 35m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) and an external fosse (Wth 3.5m) with an entrance gap (Wth 2.6m) at E. A field fence intersects the fosse at W and N.
In 2002 archaeological monitoring by Tara O'Neill on a residential development site located south and south-east the ringfort, revealed no archaeological features or deposits of archaeological significance. This monitoring was carried out under Licence No. 01E18140 (Bennett 2004, 477).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.