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Ringfort - rath

Clonaspoe, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clonaspoe, 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
Clonaspoe
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.54960, -8.01374
SMR number
TS052-051----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

In grassland just below summit of hill on SE facing slope of rising ground with good views to S and E higher ground to N. Standing stone (TS052-052----) 100m to NNW and enclosure (TS052-052----) 220m to SE. Partially levelled ringfort which consists of a circular area (int. diam. 32m E-W) enclosed by poorly preserved earthen bank (top Wth 6m; base Wth 13m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4-1m) which has been levelled from E through S to W and outer fosse (top Wth11m; base Wth 4.5m; ext. D 0.4m) visible from N to NE only. Depicted as a circular enclosure on first ed. OS 6-inch map and as a partial enclosure on latest ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument was probably partially levelled between 1840 and 1903. Enclosing bank best preserved at N where it is intersected by a field boundary running NE-SW as depicted on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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