Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghaviller,ryninch Upper, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghaviller,ryninch Upper
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnagry
- Coordinates
- 52.83681, -8.41680
- SMR number
- TN019-039002-
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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 SE-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous area. This ringfort, separated by a berm (Wth 8m) from a larger ringfort to the SE, (TN019-039001) consists of a circular area (diam. 27.5m N-S; 25.7m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m) and external fosse (Wth 1.5m) with a possible entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at NW. A road intersects the fosse at E.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.