Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Barbaha, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barbaha
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.85253, -8.31724
- SMR number
- TN020-046----
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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 the N slope of a steep ravine overlooking a river. Only the SE portion of a large bivallate enclosure survives consisting of a platform enclosed by two earth and stone banks with a wide flat-bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 5m) (inner bank: Wth 2m; int H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) (outer bank: Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m). The slope of the ravine forms a natural defence at N.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.