Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Laffina (jones), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laffina (jones)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.59843, -7.93961
- SMR number
- TS052-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a knoll on the SE-facing slope in the centre of a field of tillage with good views in all directions. Scrub-covered raised circular area (int. diam. 33m SE-NW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (Wth at top 2m; overall Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1-1.3m) which has been mainly reduced to a scarp with slight traces of an outer fosse which has been mainly filled in and entrance gap (Wth. 7m) at SE which has been widened. Livestock gap (Wth 2m) in bank at NW. Interior follows natural slope of terrain sloping from NW to SE. Old quarry hole evident in external face of scarp at S. Field boundaries depicted on latest ed. OS 6-inch map immediately enclosing ringfort to S and W have been removed.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.