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
- 52.80940, -7.96829
- SMR number
- TN028-029----
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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 S-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region overlooking a nearby ringfort (TN028-028) to the SW. A bivallate ringfort consisting of a circular area (diam. 31m N-S) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3-4m; D 0.2m) and causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) at S. The inner bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) is totally destroyed at NE where the site appears to have been quarried while the outer bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m) is best visible at S. The interior follows the natural slope of the hill with evidence of cultivation ridges traversing the interior on a N-S axis.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.