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
- 52.77755, -8.12818
- SMR number
- TN027-131----
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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 slight rise in a river valley with a stream flowing to the NE. A roughly circular site (diam. 35.5m N-S; 37.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.67m; ext. H 1.8m) and a wide, waterlogged fosse (Wth 4.9m; D 1.12m). The bank is cut into the rise in slope on the S side. The interior is rush filled, with scrub around the bank. Drainage gullies and a stream flow immediately SE of the site and the surrounding field is quite wet.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.