Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barronstown (ormond), (shronell Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barronstown (ormond), (shronell Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.48934, -8.21233
- SMR number
- TS058-056----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a slight SW-facing slope in gently undulating improved pasture. Shown as a hachured roughly circular area on the 1906 edition of the OS 6-inch map but now consists of a roughly ovoid slightly raised area (dims. c. 14m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by a low flat-topped earthen bank (overall Wth 4m; Wth at top 1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) with an external fosse (overall Wth 5m; D 0.2m). The bank and fosse enclose the ringfort SW-NW only. The bank is absent NE-SE and the edge of the platform is defined by an earthen scarp (H 0.4m). The bank has been removed and the edge of the monument straightened off NW-NE and SE-SW. A farmyard extends to the edge of the ringfort at S. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is level and densely overgrown with thorn bushes across the N half.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.