Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowkeale (kilvellane Par.),castlewaller, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeale (kilvellane Par.),castlewaller
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.70661, -8.36221
- SMR number
- TN037-020----
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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 NE-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous area with a stream to the W. A circular area (diam. 23.3m E-W) enclosed by a drystone wall sitting on top of an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5-2.3m; H 2m) and a waterlogged external fosse (Wth 3m) with a stone-lined causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) at S. A possible field wall extends from the entrance towards a nearby cashel (TN037-021) to the SE. This is a well-preserved cashel with an impressive causewayed entrance and wall-footings of a possible circular hut site in the N sector of the interior. A stream intersects the fosse at W on a NW-SE axis.
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
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.