Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Woodford, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodford
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.58909, -7.95081
- SMR number
- TS052-005----
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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 flat grassland with good views in all directions, Woodford House in adjoining field to S. Slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 36m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 2m; base Wth 1m; ext. H 1m; int. H 0.2m) best preserved from W to N elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp and outer foose (top Wth 4m; base Wth 2m; ext. D 0.1m) visible at S only with possible entrance gap (Wth 5m) at N. Wall footings of a rectangular building (int. Dims. 10.7m N-S x 5.8m E-W; wall T 0.8m) built up against inner face of bank in W quadrant of ringfort. Remains of stone rubble of a building also visible in the centre of the ringfort. These buildings may be 19th century structures, such as a summer house associated with Woodford House.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.