Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curragharneen, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragharneen
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78447, -8.18570
- SMR number
- TN027-108----
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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
Located on the NE-facing slope of a hill in pasture with a nearby ringfort (TN027-109) visible to the E. A roughly circular area (diam. 43.6m N-S; 42.2m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m), a fosse (Wth 4.8m; D 0.73m) and an outer bank (Wth 1.4m; ext. H 0.5m) with a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.5m) in the S sector used by cattle and tractor. A field boundary, which augments the outer bank, extends along the edge of the fosse at S. Some rushes growing in the interior indicate that the site gets waterlogged and there is a suggestion of ridge and furrow in the S portion. A silage heap near the W edge of the site has been fenced off with post and wire fencing.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.