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Ringfort - rath

Glengoole South, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Glengoole South, 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 South
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.61414, -7.63879
SMR number
TS048-039----

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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 NW-facing slope of the Slieveardagh Hills with higher ground to E and lower ground to W and N, in wet marshy grassland which has been partially reclaimed. A ringfort (TS048-040----) lies 300m to the SW. An old stream running downslope intersects with the outer fosse at the SE and runs downhill where it exits the fosse at the W. The ringfort is very overgrown and covered in trees and bushes making detailed examination impossible, only the S half of monument was accessible. Monument consists of a raised circular area (diam approx. 30m N-S) enclosed by a well-preserved, wide, flat-topped earth and stone bank (top Wth 2m; base Wth 4.5m ; int. H 0.8-1.2m; ext. H 2.5m ) and a wide flat-bottomed fosse (base Wth 2m; top Wth 8m; ext. H 0.5m), with gaps in the bank at the SSW (Wth 1.7m) and E (Wth 1.9m). The interior slopes with the natural slope of the land on which the monument is situated.

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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