Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinree (ballysheehan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinree (ballysheehan Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57827, -7.84992
- SMR number
- TS053-018----
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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 a NW facing slope of low N-S ridge in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. Impressive ringfort consists of a large circular area (int. diam. 42m N-S; 55m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.5m; base Wth 3m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.5-1m ) reduced to a scarp at N and E otherwise well preserved and outer fosse (base Wth 1.7m; top Wth 4m; ext. D 0.4m ) intersected at N by a field boundary running on an E-W axis. No entrance feature visible. Fosse not visible from N through E to SE. Livestock gap (Wth 2m) in bank at NW, no entrance feature visible.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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