Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballytarsna (hackett), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballytarsna (hackett)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.57453, -7.83856
- SMR number
- TS053-021001-
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 grassland atop low rise of ground with good views in all directions. Nearby ringfort (TS053-022----) visible 130m to NE. Conjoined ringfort (TS053-021----) to N. This larger circular ringfort (int. diam. 25m N-S; 27m E-W) is enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1m; base Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H0.9m) reduced to a scarp at W with outer fosse (base Wth 2m; top Wth 4m; ext. D 0.3m) which encloses both enclosures. It accesses the northern ringfort via a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NE. Both enclosures are contained within a small rectangular field as depicted on 1953-4 ed. OS 6-inch map. This field boundary intersects the outer face of the enclosing bank of both enclosures at E on a N-S axis destroying the outer fosse.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.