Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnada, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnada
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.71223, -8.03115
- SMR number
- TN040-002----
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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 break in a gentle S-facing slope, near the summit of a hillock, in pasture. A roughly circular bivallate site (diam. 24m N-S; 22.4m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.28m; ext. H 0.92m), a U-shaped fosse (Wth 3.11m; D 0.8m) and a denuded outer bank (Wth 2.8-3.5m; ext. H 0.32m) with a causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) in the SE quadrant. There are old field boundaries adjacent to the site at W and NW and a farm roadway built at NE has damaged the inner bank. There is a roughly circular hollow (Wth c. 9m) in the interior in the SE quadrant.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.