Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcoolyabbey, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoolyabbey
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Black Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.67812, -7.55863
- SMR number
- TS043-029----
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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 flat land in Kilcooly abbey demesne with a nearby ringfort (TS043-032----) 380m to S. This monument is heavily covered with beech trees as part of a demesne plantation. This ringfort consists of a raised circular (diam. E-W 32m; N-S 36m) area enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1m-2m; base Wth 3m-4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.8m), fosse (base Wth. 2m; top Wth 4m; ext. D 1.7m) and outer bank (base Wth 5m; top Wth 2.3m; ext. H 0.6m). A quarry located in the SE quadrant has destroyed part of the interior, inner bank and fosse.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.