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Ringfort - rath

Skehanagh North, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Skehanagh North, County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Skehanagh North
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.85255, -7.85379
SMR number
TN023-042----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located c. 350m NW of Skehanagh House in low-lying terrain in pasture with a nearby stream running along the E side of the site and into the fosse. A roughly circular area (diam. 54m N-S; 52m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.6m), a fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m), an outer bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.9m) and an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m). The outer bank and fosse do not survive at E and the inner E bank has been augmented by material from the adjacent stream which was deepened in recent years. In the interior there is a smaller enclosure (diam. 24m) defined by a bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.2m) and shallow fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.15m) best preserved in the SW quadrant. A NE-SW field wall transects the N half of the site, terminating at SW in the inner fosse and joining with a field boundary at NE. No definite entrance feature visible. The site may have been reused as a tree-ring.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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