Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Nodstown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nodstown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.57492, -7.91395
- SMR number
- TS052-027----
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 wet flat poorly drained land with good views in all directions, nearby named well 20m to E. Ringfort consists of a circular area (int. diam. 40m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (top Wth 0.8m; base Wth 3m;int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) and outer fosse (base Wth 1.4m; top Wth 3.6m; ext. D 0.4m) best visible at S. No entrance feature visible.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.