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Ringfort - rath

Gortnagowna (Templederry Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gortnagowna (Templederry Par.), County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gortnagowna (Templederry Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.75739, -8.08194
SMR number
TN033-021----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the NE-facing slope of a hill overlooking a valley, in pasture. Hunt's Grove House is situated at the base of the hill to the NE. An oval-shaped area (diam. 27.4m N-S; 25.4m E-W) defined by a bank at W (Wth 1.3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m), elsewhere reduced to scarp with the possible indication of outer fosse at W (Wth 1.7m; D 0.25m). There has been some dumping of clay on the edge of the site at SSW and there is a slight hollow in this sector. Large beech trees grow around the edge of the bank in the NE quadrant - the site appears to have been reused as a tree-ring.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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