Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyduag, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyduag
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.72988, -7.78211
- SMR number
- TN035-077----
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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 the gentle SW-facing slope of a low N-S ridge in undulating countryside. A raised oval-shaped area (diam. 63m NW-SE; 61m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp (H 1-2m), a wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4-6m; D 0.85m) and an external bank of earth and stone (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.5m). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 4.7m) at NE. Evidence of internal and external wall-facing of the outer bank is best preserved at NE with evidence of possible wall-footings on top of the inner bank also at NE. This is a large impressive enclosure with stone defences which might imply a medieval date for usage of the site.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.