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Castle - ringwork

Dundrum, County Tipperary South, Ireland

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Townland
Dundrum
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.53469, -8.03537
SMR number
TS060-007----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 lush meadow. A natural mound has been modified to form a roughly circular area (dims. 13m E-W; 12m N-S) defined by scarp (Wth1.35m; H 0.45m) WSW-ENE and by a long, gentle scarp (Wth 30m; H 2.55m) ENE-WSW. Intervening fosse (basal Wth 1.6m; overall Wth 4.55m; Dth 0.65m) and outer bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.4m; Wth at top 2m; total Wth 4.6m) WSW-ENE. Fosse is open-ended and continues beyond scarp at WSW and ENE and doubles back around base of natural mound. Fosse (basal Wth 2.55m; overall 4.25m; Dth 0.1m) is best preserved WSW-NNE. An inner scarp (Wth 1.25m; H 1.1m) is on the inside of the fosse and an outer bank (Wth at top 2m; total Wth 4.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) is on the exterior. Inner scarp, fosse and outer bank are best preserved WSW-NNE and outer bank is levelled N-E. Gap (Wth 4.5m) in inner scarp at N. The area of the natural mound enclosed by the fosse and bank WSW-ESE is very steep and unlikely to have been inhabited.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 07 July 2014

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