Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnalara, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnalara
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75806, -8.06822
- SMR number
- TN033-022----
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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 natural rise on the NE-facing slope of a ridge, in pasture. A circular, grass-covered area (diam. 36.2m N-S; 36.8m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of gravelly clay (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.86m; max. ext. H downslope 2m). The external face of the bank has been truncated probably due to cattle and there is a possible entrance gap (Wth 3.6m) in the NE quadrant. No fosse visible above ground. The interior has traces of lazy beds, aligned N-S, on the E side and possible smaller beds in the W portion aligned E-W.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.