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Ringfort - rath

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Garraun (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
Garraun (Ballysheehan Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.55209, -7.78926
SMR number
TS053-101----

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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 a flat break of a gentle N-facing slope, in pasture. At the foot of Ballinure Hill. There is a possible ringfort (TS053-080----) 140m to the N and a ringfort (TS053-081----) 145m to the S. A farm roadway (Wth c. 2.5m) runs N-S along the W quadrant, over the top of the bank. A field boundary runs N-S along the W edge of the monument, on the W side of the roadway. According to local tradition this monument was regarded as being a ringfort (Ryan 2000, 79, 86). An oval enclosure (dims. 48m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by an earthen bank which has been largely levelled. The bank in the E quadrant is very subtle and is visible as a low rise from NE-E-SE. The bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.75m; Wth at crest 4m; overall Wth 10m) is best preserved in the NW quadrant and along the W sector where it has been incorporated in a field boundary (H 1m above ext.). The bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.2m; Wth at crest 4m; overall Wth 8m) is also quite well preserved in the S quadrant, immediately W of the farm roadway.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 15 March 2013

References

Ryan, T. 2000 The ringforts in O.S. sheet 53 for Co. Tipperary. Boherlahan-Dualla Historical Journal, 74-91.

Nearby in the register

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

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