Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowkeale (kilvellane Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeale (kilvellane Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70299, -8.36652
- SMR number
- TN037-019----
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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 high ground with extensive views and a nearby cashel (TN037-018) to the SW. A circular area (diam. 22.5m NW-SE) enclosed by a well-preserved drystone wall (T 2m; H 1.5m) with no entrance feature visible. Field walls intersect the site at NW and E. A millstone roughout lies nearby to the SE.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.