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Ringfort - rath

Ballincurry (Crohane Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballincurry (Crohane 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
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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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 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

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

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