Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinulty, County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 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.