Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fertiana, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fertiana
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.64576, -7.84747
- SMR number
- TN047-020----
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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 flat land at the edge of a marsh. A spring well in the SE quadrant flows strongly into a large pond to the SE. Depicted as somewhat D-shaped on the 1st ed. (1843) OS 6-inch map while being more circular on the current (1952-3) revision. An irregular, roughly D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 33m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.33m; ext. H 1m) and external fosse (Wth 2.7m; D 0.36m). A gap in the bank at W (Wth 3.8m) appears to have been broken through and may not represent the original entrance. The bank is reduced to a scarp along the badly overgrown SE side.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.