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Ringfort - rath

Rathbeg, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rathbeg, 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
Rathbeg
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.68086, -7.59643
SMR number
TS043-026----

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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 off the summit of a low hillock in undulating pasture with good views in all directions. A poorly preserved ringfort the interior of which has suffered from cattle erosion while the parameter of the monument is overgrown with vegetation and trees. The ringfort consists of a circular platform (diam. 36m NW-SE; overall diam. c. 60m NW-SE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp (ext. H 1m) fosse (base Wth 2.3m; top Wth 4.2m; ext. D 1.5m) and outer bank (top Wth 2m; base Wth 4m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.7m). Gaps in the bank at the SW are probably the result of cattle poaching, while a gap (Wth 5m) in the bank at the SE may be an original entrance feature which has been widened for cattle access.

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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