Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Galbertstown Upper, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Galbertstown Upper
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.62449, -7.85735
- SMR number
- TN047-053----
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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 NW-facing slope in undulating terrain, in pasture. A roughly circular area (diam. 36.5m N-S) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.45m), a wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1.1m) and a counterscarp which has been augmented by a field bank (Wth 1.7m; ext. H 0.35m). There is a gap (Wth c. 2m) in the SW quadrant with displaced stone collapsing from the bank on the S side and stone protruding from the base of the bank on the W side. Also at SW there is stone facing on the inner face of the counterscarp bank. A limekiln is built into the counterscarp at N and a large area of the interior has been quarried into as indicated on latest ed. (1952-3) OS 6-inch map.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.