Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilnashanally, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnashanally
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78675, -8.15252
- SMR number
- TN027-117----
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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 NE-facing lower slope of a hill, in pasture. A heavily overgrown univallate ringfort (diam. c. 40m N-S) defined by a bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.93m) with a modern gap (Wth 4.5m) in the SW quadrant. A deep drainage gully aligned NW-SE meets the external face of the bank at W and continues around the circumference of the site. This has been excavated to form a wide, deep ditch with sheer sides. In the NE quadrant this deep ditch ends with water flowing NE-SW down the field gully.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.