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Ringfort - unclassified

Ballygasheen, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Ballygasheen, 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
Ballygasheen
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Lisheennaspiddoge
Coordinates
52.83154, -8.14093
SMR number
TN027-005----

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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

Situated on a SW-facing slope in pastureland. A raised circular area (diam. 38m NE-SW) defined by a denuded earth and stone bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) and outer fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.8m). The site is partially damaged by bull-dozer activity, particularly at E. Scrub growing around the edge of the site has been bull-dozed into the fosse. The interior, sloping to SW, is overgrown with scrub at N and E. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2m) in the NE quadrant, though the gap is quite narrow and the corresponding causeway may be the result of more recent backfilling. A field bank and ditch, on a NE-SW axis, abuts the fosse at SW.

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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