Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilballyhemikin, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilballyhemikin
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.83711, -7.87059
- SMR number
- TN023-051----
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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 ground sloping to the SW in undulating hilly terrain in pasture with a possible standing stone (TN023-067) on a break of slope 87m to the N. A large circular enclosure (diam. 46m N-S; 45m E-W) delimited by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 1.38m; ext. H 2m) and an outer wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.75m). There is a gap (Wth 2m) in the bank at NW. The interior slopes to the SW in the NE quadrant and then levels out.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 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.