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Ringfort - rath

Ballyroe, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyroe, 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
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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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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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