Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballincurry (crohane Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincurry (crohane Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.58182, -7.59886
- SMR number
- TS055-024----
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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 flat poorly drained grassland in upland area with good views in all directions. Only the W half of the ringfort survives where it has been incorporated into the modern field boundary and consists of an earth and stone bank (top Wth 2.2m; base Wth 5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.7m)with wet waterlogged outer fosse (base Wth 4m; top Wth 9m; ext. D 1m) enclosing a semi-circular area (int. diam. 44m N-S) from S through W to N only, elsewhere the enclosing elements have been levelled. The ban only survives from NW to N only and has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) from S through W to NW. Poorly preserved monument of which only the bank and fosse survives from S through W to N where it is incorporated into the modern field boundary, elsewhere the monument has been levelled possibly when the field was being reclaimed.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.