Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farneybridge, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farneybridge
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyvesta Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.66513, -7.89820
- SMR number
- TN041-053001-
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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 the summit of a low N-S ridge in undulating pastureland with a circular enclosure (TN041-053002) immediately to the SW. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1st ed. (1843) OS 6-inch map, however on the latest ed. (1952-3) only the N half is indicated. The site has been levelled but is still visible as a circular raised area (diam. 40m E-W) defined by a scarp (ext. H 0.56m) with a field boundary enclosing the N sector. Clearance material from the levelled ringfort has been dumped in the surviving N sector which has been fenced off and used as a dump.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.