Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghglass (glenkeen Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghglass (glenkeen Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.76758, -7.95756
- SMR number
- TN034-016----
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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 just below the brow of a hill on a S-facing slope in an upland area. A partially levelled bivallate ringfort consisting of a circular area (diam. 48m approx.) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.5m). The inner bank (Wth 3-6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5-2.5m) and fosse are visible at S only, elsewhere destroyed. The outer bank (Wth 2.5m; ext. H 1.3m) is the best preserved and survives as a field fence from SW through W to N, elsewhere destroyed.
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
- Designed landscape featureunder 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.