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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.57877, -7.89783
- SMR number
- TS053-014----
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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 grassland on an E-facing slope of low N-S ridge in unudlating countryside with good views in all directions. Impressive large circular area (int. diam. 54m N-S; 56m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 2.5m; base Wth 6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1-1.7m) with traces of a barely visible shallow filled in fosse and entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) at E. Depicted on 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map as a bivallate ringfort of which only the inner bank now survives. Described by Cahill in 1982 as a bivallate ringfort in good condition enclosed by an inner and outer bank with intervening fosse and possible entrance gap at NE. Outer bank and inner fosse have been levelled since 1982 and inner bank appears to have been cleaned up and possibly heightened during this process. Appears on aerial photogrpah taken in 1974 as a bivallate ringfort with entrance gap at E (GSI S 593/4).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Cahill, M. 1982 The archaeology of the Barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Unpublished M. A. thesis.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.