Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garryvanus, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryvanus
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.67730, -7.91966
- SMR number
- TN040-019----
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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 a SE-facing slope in gently undulating terrain. A circular area (diam. 34m N-S; 36m E-W) surrounded by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4m) with external drystone revetment. No visible entrance feature. Sycamore trees grow on top of the bank and in the interior. There is a build up of clay in the SW quadrant against the inner face of the bank. The height and substantial nature of the bank suggests that this was a ringfort which became a landscape feature of the Castle Fogarty estate.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.