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Ringfort - rath

Ballinulty, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballinulty, 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
Ballinulty
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.49698, -8.27491
SMR number
TS058-050----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

On top of a gently sloping low rise, in gently undulating improved pasture with a moated site (TS058-049001-) visible c. 320m to the NW. Shown as a hachured roughly circular area on the 1904 edition of the OS 6-inch map but has since been truncated at the E edge and now consists of a D-shaped slightly raised area (dims. 23m N-S; 19m W-E) defined by a broad flat-topped earthen bank (overall Wth 7.8m; Wth at top 1.4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.5m) with an external fosse (overall Wth 6m). The bank is best preserved SE-NW where the flat-topped profile is consistent and undisturbed. From NW-NE the bank has been increased in height (int. H 1.2m) with the addition of soil and some rubble rock derived from modern field clearance activity. An E-W orientated track lies 4m from the external base of the bank at N. The bank has been removed and the edge of the ringfort straightened off NE-SE with a modern ramp (Wth 3m) at E giving access to the interior. The fosse is visible SW-NW only as a very slight hollow at the external base of the bank. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth.

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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