Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooleagh (graystown Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooleagh (graystown Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.56285, -7.78730
- SMR number
- TS053-079----
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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 grassland on a NW-facing slope of rising ground in upland region with good views from W through N to NE, higher ground to E. Ringfort consists of a slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 22m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (top Wth 2m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 0.5-1m ) which has been reduced at NW to a scarp (H 0.5m) for a distance of 15m and totally levelled from E to S for a distance of 21m.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.