Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Raheen (ballysheehan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.