Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killavalla (kilnaneave Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavalla (kilnaneave Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.79676, -8.09662
- SMR number
- TN027-094----
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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 break in the lower NE-facing slope of Knockadiggeen with a stream flowing c. 30m to the NW. A slightly oval-shaped enclosure (diam. 28.5m N-S; 35.2m E-W) defined by a high bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1.57m; ext. H 2.07m) and a wide, U-shaped outer fosse (Wth 6m; D 1.76m) with counterscarp bank (ext. H 2.5m). Both fosse and banks reduce towards the downslope NE quadrant where the inner bank is reduced to scarp and there is no fosse or outer bank. A NE-SW field bank joins the outer bank in the NW sector.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.