Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Rathurles, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathurles
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.87664, -8.13737
- SMR number
- TN021-012003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Listed in the SMR (1992) and RMP (1998) as piers. These gatepiers are located in the field NE of Rathurles ringfort (TN021-012001). They consist of two large recumbent limestone blocks fomerly used as gatepiers to mark the entrance to the ringfort and are likely to be of nineteenth-century date.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.