Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyconnor, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyconnor
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.81470, -8.08887
- SMR number
- TN027-041----
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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 the NE-facing slope of a hill, in pasture. Depicted as a D-shaped enclosure on the st ed. OS 6-inch map and as a circular area on the latest ed. The site is levelled but is still clearly visible as a circular area (diam. 52m N-S and E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.37m; ext. H 0.65m) and fosse (Wth 5.6m; D 0.54m). The site was classified as a ringfort after field inspection in 1959 (OPW files). On the aerial photograph it appears to have been levelled by 1968 (CUCAP, AVN 60), though it was still clearly definable by a surviving fosse.
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
- Enclosureunder 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.