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Ringfort - rath

Graiguepadeen, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Graiguepadeen, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Graiguepadeen
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.69299, -7.61991
SMR number
TS042-028----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On top of a natural hillock in undulating pasture with good views in all directions. A well-preserved ringfort consisting of a raised circular area (diam. 51m N-S; 53m E-W) enclosed by a well-preserved earth and stone bank (base Wth. 6m; top Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.5m) reduced to a scarp at the SE where the field boundaries intersect with the monument. There are two cattle gaps in the bank at the N sector and a gap in the bank at the E due to tree root disturbance. The bank is at its highest externally from the SW through W to the N. A modern house has been built approx. 20m to the SW of the ringfort where there was an earlier 19th-century farmhouse and farmyard.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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