Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymore, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.57513, -7.95876
- SMR number
- TS052-025----
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
In a farmyard surrounded by grassland atop low rise of ground with good views in all directions, nearby enclosure (TS052-023----) 310m to NW and ringfort (TS052-022----) 370m to NW. No surface remains visible. Modern farm buildings have been built immediately W of and are encroaching on the monument. A farm road cuts through the interior from NE to SW. Depicted as a circular enclosure (int. diam. 28m N-S; 26m E-W) on the 1903 edition OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 16 June 2015
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.