Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Summerhill (rathnaveoge Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Summerhill (rathnaveoge Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.88415, -7.87790
- SMR number
- TN023-006----
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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 gentle NE-facing slope overlooking a small river valley or ravine to the NW, in undulating pastureland. A roughly circular area (diam. 30.5m E-W) defined by a low, broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.24m; ext. H 0.48-0.78m) which is poorly preserved. Low heaps of earth around the circumferance of the site in the interior are the result of land clearance and an attempt to level the site. The bank is quarried away in the NW quadrant. It was not possible to determine the position of the entrance, though the Ikerrin Survey identifed a gap in the NE sector which may have been the original entrance (Stout 1984, 80). No external fosse visible. At E the bank has been completely removed and the surface area of bank shows evidence of burning.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.