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Ringfort - rath

Ballysheehan (Ballysheehan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballysheehan (Ballysheehan Par.), County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballysheehan (Ballysheehan Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.55853, -7.85829
SMR number
TS053-062----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 flat grassland with good views in all directions. On the first ed. OS 6-inch map there is a pigeon house located immediately to the N of the possible ringfort. This pigeon house is not indicated on the latest ed. OS 6-inch map and is no longer visible. Barely visible outline of a levelled possible ringfort consisting of a slight rise of ground or degraded bank (top Wth 6m; base Wth 10m; ext. H 0.4m; int. H 0.3m) visible along its E quadrant only on top of which are planted two lime trees, elsewhere the bank is barely visible as a low rise of ground enclosing a circular area (approx. int. diam. 31m N-S; overall diam. 50m N-S). Indicated as a cropmark of a multivallate enclosure on aerial photographs taken in July 1971 (CUCAP BGO 14, 15, S. 593/4). Monument levelled before 1971. It is described by O'Donovan (O'Donovan and Duffy 2002, 36-7) as a ring-barrow (diam. 46m) which 'consists of an externally ditched enclosure defined by a flattened 8m wide bank and an internal ditch that measures 3-4m wide and 0.40m deep. The externally ditched enclosure surrounds a central ring barrow. The ring barrow consists of a low flat mound 8m in diameter surrounded by a 0.30m deep, 2m wide ditch. A level concentric 6m wide platform surrounds the central barrow inside the externally ditched enclosure. A possible 5m wide entrance feature is located in the northeast corner of the outer enclosure. Two large trees are present on the northern external bank. The bank survives to a greater level at this point, indicating that the monument has been considerably denuded; however, it is still clearly visible on the ground'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

O'Donovan, E. and Duffy, S. 2002 A deserted medieval village at Ballysheehan, Co. Tipperary. Tipperary Historical Journal, 33-43.

Nearby in the register

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

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