Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mortlestown (cooleagh Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.