Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortagarry, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortagarry
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.80825, -7.97019
- SMR number
- TN028-028----
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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 SE-facing slope of a hillock in a mountainous region with a nearby ringfort (TN028-029) to the NE. A bivallate ringfort consisting of a circular area (diam. 49m NW-SE) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.45m) and possible entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at NE. The inner bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) is the best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.5m) is visible at W only.
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
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.