Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinure, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinure
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.57487, -7.77130
- SMR number
- TS053-029001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
On a SE-facing slope just below summit of hilltop in upland are with good extensive views in all directions. In grassland, field immediately to N has been ploughed at time of visit. Ringfort (int. diam. 26m N-S; 30m E-W) adjoins a larger enclosure (TS053-029----) to the SE which is accessed via a causewayed entrance (Wth 6m) from the larger enclosure at SSE. This smaller ringfort is defined by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1m; base Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H0.5m) and outer fosse (top Wth 3m; base Wth 1.4m; ext. D 0.6m). Inner bank has been reduced to a scarp in places.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.