Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garraun (ballysheehan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun (ballysheehan Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.54711, -7.77436
- SMR number
- TS053-086----
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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 flat pasture with good views in all directions. Poorly preserved monument consisting of a circular area (int. diam. 29m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.8m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.2m). Interior planted with whitethorn bushes with some evidence of slight quarrying. Small enclosing field boundary indicated on latest ed. OS 6-inch map has been removed. Slightly sunken waterlogged interior which is covered in protruding rocks, unusual for a ringfort, different morphologically from the surrounding ringforts.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.