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Ringfort - rath

Killough (Gaile Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Killough (Gaile Par.), 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
Killough (Gaile Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.61735, -7.84831
SMR number
TS047-056----

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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 low rise of pasture in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. Killough Hill lies immediately to the S and Killough Castle is 670m to the W. Much degraded levelled ringfort consisting of a circular area (diam. 59m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) and possible outer fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.1m) visible at S only, the monument is best preserved from S to W. The field boundaries depicted on the OS 6-inch map as immediately enclosing the ringfort are no longer visible. A sketch plan and section of the monument from the 1950s shows a fosse along the W side between the bank and the field boundary (OPW files). It is described as a well-preserved monument but under threat from agricultural development in 1974 (Cahill, 1982), probably partially levelled around the mid 1970s when field boundaries were removed.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Cahill, M. 1982 The archaeology of the Barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Unpublished M. A. thesis.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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