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Ringfort - rath

Glengoole North, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Glengoole North, 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
Glengoole North
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.61763, -7.65017
SMR number
TS048-036----

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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 grassland on top of a low rise of ground at the foothills of the Slieveardagh hills with good views in all directions. A poorly preserved ringfort, the interior of which has been quarried (Wth 7m; 25m L) into at the N and NW quadrants. Originally the monument consisted of a circular area (int. diam. 32m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (base Wth 5m; top Wth 2m; ext. H 1m ; int. H 0.4m) and external fosse (base Wth 1m; top Wth 2m;ext. D 0.2m) with a possible outer bank only visible at the NW. The enclosing bank of earth and stone is best preserved at the E and SW, elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp. A large gap (Wth 7m) in the bank at the N which may be the remains of old quarrying. In the NW quadrant the enclosing fosse and bank is covered in field clearance debris. A lot of small stones are visible in the bank construction. A field boundary intersects the monument from N to NE.

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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