Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyroe, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroe
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.58023, -7.94011
- SMR number
- TS052-019----
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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 natural low hill which slopes off to NE, in pasture. Ringfort is tightly fenced off. Interior is planted with conifers, no diam. obtainable. Monument (int. diam. c. 65m N-S x c. 63m E-W) is defined from NW-N-S by scarp (H ranges from 0.35 S quadrant to 1.43m NW quadrant). Lot of stone around edge of scarp in N quadrant, this may be the result of field clearance or collapsed revetting on ext. face of scarp. The 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map depicts an outer bank running around the circumference of the monument, this outer bank only survives in the SW quadrant (Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.77m; ext. H 0.48m), with a fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.43m) between it and the internal scarp. Indicated as a large bivallate ringfort on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 16 June 2016
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.