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Ringfort - rath

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Raheen (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
Raheen (Ballysheehan Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Raheen
Coordinates
52.55507, -7.81645
SMR number
TS053-074----

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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

In reclaimed grassland on a N-facing slope of rising ground with wet unreclaimed land to N and higher ground to S. Large sub-circular area (int. diam. 63m N-S; 60m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top wth 2.2m; base Wth 3m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.2-1m) best preserved from S to W and mainly reduced to a scarp from NW to N and survives as an earthen bank elsewhere, with traces of an outer fosse visible at N only, possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at SSW and livestock gap (Wth 1.2m) in bank at NW. Large quarry (dims. 8m N-S; 20m E-W; D 1.5m) in W quadrant of interior of ringfort which may have resulted in the construction of stone walls on top of bank of ringfort visible along W quadrant but not visible elsewhere where the bank construction is mainly of earth with some stone included. Drystone wall sitting on top of bank along W quadrant may be associated with quarry as stone wall runs parallel with stone on top of bank forming a roadway giving access to quarry, this roadway runs along the outside of the bank on the W side.

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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