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Ringfort - rath

Urard, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Urard, 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
Urard
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.69520, -7.56684
SMR number
TS043-011----

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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 a slight NNE-facing slope of a low rise of ground in undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Another ringfort (TS043-010----) is located 290m to the N and visible from the ringfort interior. The interior of the ringfort slopes from SSW to NNE following the natural slope of the hillock on which it is located. This well-preserved ringfort consists of a circular area (diam. N-S 38m; E-W 29m) enclosed by an inner bank (top Wth 3m; base Wth 5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m-1m) reduced to a scarp in places, a fosse (base Wth 1.5m; top Wth 3m; ext. D 0.5m-1m) and a flat-topped outer bank (top Wth 1.5m-3m; base Wth 3.7m; ext. H 0.5m) which is intersected by a laneway at NW to N. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at the NE. The outer bank is heavily overgrown with thorn bushes and is intersected by a field boundary from NE to E and is much degraded as a result.

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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