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Ringfort - rath

Ballinenagh, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballinenagh, 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
Ballinenagh
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.81383, -8.15670
SMR number
TN027-026----

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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 level ground in a valley. A possible trivallate ringfort which survives intact at NE only, elsewhere the site consists of a circular area (diam. 25.4m N-S; 26.7m E-W) defined by a much denuded bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.72m; ext. H 0.7m), reduced to a scarp in places and a wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5.3m; D 0.95). At NE there is a second bank (Wth 6m; ext. H 0.81m) with a corresponding fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1.39m) and external bank (Wth 5.5m; ext. H 0.36m). The outer enclosing elements are indicated as a field boundary on the current edition OS 6-inch map which casts some doubt on the antiquity of the outer enclosing elements. This may have been a bivallate site which was enclosed by a modern field boundary giving the impression of a trivallate site. Depicted on the first edition OS 6-inch map as a univallate ringfort.

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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