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Ringfort - rath

Mortlestown (Cooleagh Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Mortlestown (Cooleagh 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
Mortlestown (Cooleagh Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.54407, -7.66410
SMR number
TS054-069----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 situated atop a low hillock in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. Ringfort, separated by a fosse (base Wth 3m; top Wth 6m; D 1.5m) from a smaller ringfort to the W (TS054-069002-). Raised circular area (int. diam. 40m N-S; 44m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 2.2m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 1.5-3.5m) and external fosse (base Wth 3m; top Wth 7m; ext. D1.7m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) at SE and causeway (Wth 7m) at W which gives access into the smaller adjoining ringfort to W. Cattle gap (Wth 5m) in bank at NE where the bank has been reduced to a scarp by cattle poaching along the N side of the bank, cattle feeding trough in the centre of the interior. Stone-lined entrance visible only along E side of entrance, W side of entrance has been destroyed by livestock erosion. Enclosing bank is at its highest externally and most impressive along the N sector where the fosse is also at its widest and deepest. Outer fosse is intersected by a field boundary at NE where it destroys all evidence of the fosse from NE through E to S. The external face of the bank has suffered from erosion on the E sector of the enclosing bank where the fosse no longer survives. Fosse visible from SW through W through N to NE only, elsewhere destroyed or not visible.

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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