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Ringfort - rath

Ballinree (ballysheehan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

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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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Nearby in the register

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

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