Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Synone, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Synone
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.57049, -7.88612
- SMR number
- TS053-031----
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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 flat grassland with good views in all directions. Levelled enclosure (TS053-032----) 200m to E. Ringfort consists of a circular area (int. diam. 37m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.8m; base Wth 4.5m; ext. H 1.2m; int. H 0.4-1m) with possible entrance gap (Wth 3.7m) which has been widened at E. No outer fosse or other features visible. A sketch plan and section of the monument drawn in 1953 shows the interior as being below the external ground level (OS Field Memorandums). The interior has been recently cleared of vegetation and top sod has been removed otherwise the monument is in a fair to good condition. The monument was described in 1982 as being a heavily overgrown ringfort (Cahill 1982).
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 Unpublished M. A. thesis.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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.