Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballindigny, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballindigny
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.79137, -8.13903
- SMR number
- TN027-079----
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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 slight break in an otherwise steep SW-facing slope, in pasture. A river flows roughly NW-SE along the valley floor at the base of the slope. The site (diam. 34m E-W) is enclosed by a bank largely reduced to a scarp (H 1.15m) and a deep U-shaped fosse (Wth 6.3m) with outer bank (Wth 5.1m; int. H 1.43m; ext. H 2.04m). The interior is densely overgrown with scrub, brambles and gorse, particularly in the NE half. The outer bank has been dug into at N and heaps of spoil have been dumped there. There is a possible causewayed entrance in the SE quadrant with a reduction in the outer bank. Heavy growth impairs visibility and examination of possible entrance feature.
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
- Enclosureunder 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.