Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballygasheen, County Tipperary North, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.