Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garranacool, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garranacool
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.59921, -7.54363
- SMR number
- TS055-012----
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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 on a SE-facing slope of rising ground in upland region overlooking stream to SE. Ringfort consists of a circular area (int. diam. 41m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by a well-preserved earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.8m; base Wth 3m; int. H 0.15-0.5m; ext. H 1.7m) and outer fosse (base Wth 2m; top Wth 4m; ext. D 0.6-1m) with gaps (Wth 3m) in bank at NNE and W (Wth 2m). Bank reduced a scarp from NE through N to S and no evidence of a fosse at E but visible on all other sides (from S through W to NE). Traces of a low barely visible external bank (Wth 2m; H 0.1m) visible from NE through E to SE only not visible elsewhere. Bank intersected by a field boundary at NE, S and W as depicted on OS 6-inch map. Both gaps have the appearance of being later livestock entrances.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.