Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymurreen, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymurreen
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.63146, -7.76145
- SMR number
- TN047-045----
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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
Located on a natural rise off the crest of a NE-facing slope. A well-preserved bivallate ringfort consisting of a circular area (diam. 41m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.53m; ext. H 1.87m), a U-shaped fosse (Wth 2.7m; D 0.9m) and a possible outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 1.13m). The latter runs from SE through S to W and may be a field boundary which curves to respect the monument. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2m) at WNW and a modern gap in the E sector (Wth 2.2m). Some stone protrudes from the internal face of the outer bank.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.