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Ringfort - rath

Burnchurch, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Burnchurch, 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
Burnchurch
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.55791, -7.73739
SMR number
TS054-042----

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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

In grassland on a S-facing slope of low hillock in undulating countryside with good views in all directions, ringfort in NW corner of field and heavily overgrown. Raised circular area (approx. int. diam. 28m N-S) enclosed by a tree lined earth and stone bank (ext. H 1.5-2.5m; int. H 0.5m; base Wth 3m; top Wth 1m) reduced to a scarp at S and slightest suggestion of a shallow external fosse too faint to measure. No entrance feature visible, ringfort covered in beech trees around the perimeter and thorn bushes in interior making detailed examination impossible. Livestock gaps in bank at SE (Wth 1.5m) at NNE (Wth 1.7m) and SW (Wth 2m), no clear entrance feature. Evidence of hazel coppices around perimeter, ringfort re-used as a landscape feature. Field boundary intersects external face of platform at N on an E-W axis and at W on a N-S axis as depicted on 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map. Perimeter appears to have been truncated, possibly by the landowner when he may have been tidying up the monument.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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