Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockanavar, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanavar
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.60195, -8.20615
- SMR number
- TS044-008001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On top of a N-S ridge, on a N-facing slope of rising ground in upland area, overlooking the Cahernahallia river valley. A circular area (diam. 35m SE-NW; 30m E-W) enclosed by a low poorly preserved bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.1m) mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m); a fosse (Wth 1.8m; ext. D 0.3m) and an external bank (Top Wth 0.5-1m; base Wth 1.5m-2.4m; ext. H 0.7m) only visible from W to S. There is a modern gap (Wth 3m) in the bank at W and a possible original entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) at SW. In the centre of the interior there is a small quarry.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.