Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeen (kilnaneave Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (kilnaneave Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.77907, -8.13100
- SMR number
- TN027-130----
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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 the S side of a low hillock in a river valley with the river flowing a couple of hundred metres to the W and another stream at the base of the hillock to the E. The site was inspected in 1957 and was described as a 'large earthen platform ring-fort: platform surrounded by fosse & outer bank. Diameter of platform 150ft [45m]. Height of platform above fosse bottom 12ft [H 3.6m]. Width of fosse 15ft [4.5m]. Width of outer bank 6ft. Height of outer bank 6ft [1.8m] above fosse bottom, 4ft [1.2m] above external ground level. All densely overgrown with scrub (thorn, briars, fern) so that examination is difficult' (OPW files, 19.7.1957). The site has been levelled and the field has been reclaimed, though the base of the hillock remains very wet. Not visible at ground level.
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.