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Ringfort - rath

Drumminacunna, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Drumminacunna, 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
Drumminacunna
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.58148, -8.12113
SMR number
TS051-009----

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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 the W-facing slope of a low hillock in undulating countryside with good views in all directions, in an upland region. The ringfort consists of an irregular-shaped area (diam. 53m E-W; 56m SW-NE) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (base Wth 2.5m; top Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) visible from E to SE only, elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.25m-0.75m) with traces of an outer fosse (Wth 1.7m; ext. D 0.3m). The bank and scarp form a semi-circular enclosure from E through S to SW from where a well-preserved straight-sided field bank encloses the rest of the monument as indicated on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. This well-preserved earth and stone bank (top Wth. 1m; base Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m) which has evidence of external stone facing may be a later feature replacing or augmenting the original enclosing element from W through N to E.

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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