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Ringfort - rath

Garryclogh, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Garryclogh, 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
Garryclogh
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.68243, -7.61115
SMR number
TS042-042001-

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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

Just below the top of a low hillock on an ESE-facing slope in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. A ringfort (TS043-025----) is visible 290m to the E. A circular area (int. diam. 51m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (base Wth 4m; top Wth 1.7m; int. H 0.2m-0.4m; ext. H 0.5m-0.7m) which is reduced to a scarp from W to N where it is transected by the main road running on a NW-SE axis. There is a gap in the S bank (Wth 1.2m) which may be the entrance or a later cattle gap. Sileage has been dumped on the N bank of the ringfort. There is a low rectangular platform defined by a scarp (H 0.2m) against the inner face of the bank which may be the remains of a house platform (dims. 6m N-S 6m x 16m E-W). There are slight undulations in the centre of the monument which may relate to the possible re-use of the ringfort as a burial ground (TS042-042002-). There are thorn bushes growing along the top of the bank at the E, ESE, and SW. A cattle crush occupies the NW corner of field approx. 20m to the NW of ringfort.

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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