Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballincurra, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincurra
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.77424, -8.10653
- SMR number
- TN027-141----
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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 lower S-facing slope of Ballincurra Hill. A circular area (diam. 34m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) and wide flat-bottomed outer fosse (Wth 1.6-3m; D 1.53m) which is best visible upslope to N, E and W but disappears towards S. The bank is reduced to a scarp along the S edge of the site, and is quite denuded in the W sector with no external fosse. No definite entrance visible.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.