Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballintogher (graystown Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintogher (graystown Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.57747, -7.71789
- SMR number
- TS054-008----
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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
On a low hillock in grassland with good views in all directions with stream immediately to the S and E. Heavily overgrown but impressive ringfort consisting of a raised circular area (approx. int. diam. 36m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (base Wth 3m; top Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m) and wide flat-bottomed outer fosse (base Wth 2-4m; top Wth 1-2m; ext. D 1m). Cattle gap (Wth 2m) in bank at N. Only able to examine the interior from N to E elsewhere the ringfort is totally covered in trees and vegetation. Bank and fosse best preserved at N.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.