Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pallashill, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallashill
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.70383, -7.95243
- SMR number
- TN040-011----
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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 near the crest of the N-facing slope of an E-W ridge in pasture. A bivallate ringfort consisting of a roughly circular area (diam. 27m N-S; 30.5m E-W) enclosed by a bank which has been reduced to scarp (H 0.7m), a fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.2m) and an external bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.76m). A clay dump or the inner scarp has been pushed into the fosse at E. The bank at S is augmented by a field boundary with a drystone revetment - this field boundary continues beyond the site to the W. A quarry in the W quadrant has cut through the outer bank and fosse and extends up to the inner scarp.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.