Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killoskehan, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoskehan
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78211, -7.94601
- SMR number
- TN028-072----
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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 an E-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region with a neraby ringfort (TN028-079) to the SW. The barely discernible outline of a destroyed circular enclosure (diam. 34m) which is intersected at S by a field fence. Described by Stout (1984, 63) as a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 6m; H 0.7m) with outer fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.5m). No entrance feature visible. On the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map the enclosure appears to be connected to a limekiln of which nothing now survives. The enclosure may be contemporary with the kiln.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.