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Ringfort - rath

Barronstown (Ormond), (Shronell Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

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

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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 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

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

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