Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gragaugh, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gragaugh
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55840, -7.52817
- SMR number
- TS055-051----
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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 SW-facing slope of low rise of ground in upland region with good views in all directions. Levelled moated site (TS055-053----) 170m to SE. Monument consists of a levelled ringfort consisting of a circular area (diam 34m N-S; 49m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1m) which is intersected at N on an E-W axis, it was identified on an aerial photograph (GSI S.602/3, 16-4-1974 taken in 1974.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.