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Ringfort - rath

Aughnagomaun, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Aughnagomaun, 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
Aughnagomaun
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.60951, -7.82082
SMR number
TS047-086----

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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

In tillage on an E-facing slope of rising ground in undulating countryside with good views in all directions, Killough Hill to W. Heavily overgrown, defensive ringfort consists of a circular area (int. diam. 28m N-S; overall diam. c. 60m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved wide, flat-topped earth and stone bank (base Wth. 4m; top Wth 1.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) reduced to a scarp in places, fosse (base Wth. 3m; top Wth. 6m; ext. D 1m) and outer bank (base Wth. 5m; top Wth. 1.5m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.5m) which is intersected by a modern road at the N. An outer external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.2m) is visible on the S side only. A sketch plan and section of the monument from the 1950s shows the outer fosse surrounding the whole monument, except the NW quadrant (OPW files). The S half of the ringfort is better preserved, the presence of a road going around the N half of monument has resulted in the destruction of the outer bank and external fosse in this half. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 3m) at the NE. Considerable damage has been caused to the outer bank by tree root damage.

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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