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
- 52.78759, -8.14776
- SMR number
- TN027-118001-
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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 NE-facing hillslope with a fast flowing stream c. 20m SE at the base of a steep-sided river gorge. A circular, raised area (diam. 23m N-S; 36.3m E-W) defined by a bank reduced to a scarp (H 0.84m) and an outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m) with no entrance feature visible. The bank is very waterlogged at W and has been quarried into. On the 1904 ed. OS 6-inch map an E-W field boundary is depicted along the N sector; this has since been removed. In the OS Name Books (c. 1840) there is reference to the site being used as a burial ground (TN027-118002), however there is no visible evidence of this usage.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.