Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Deerpark (horeabbey Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark (horeabbey Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.51370, -7.90584
- SMR number
- TS060-083001-
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
In improved, undulating pasture, on a high, natural rise. Semi-circular area (dims. 50m ENE-WSW; 24m NNW-SSE) defined by bank (overall Wth 7.75m; Wth at top 0.75m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.5m) E-NW. Some rough stone-facing on exterior of bank SW-WSW and at SE. Fosse (overall Wth 7.5m; basal Wth 1.5m; D 0.65m) SE-WNW and is best defined SW-W. Interior is obscured by hay. Raised, level area (dims. 17m ENE-WSW; 9m NNW-SSE) defined by scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.35m) ENE-S is at W-side of interior. Substantial depression (Dth c. 2-3m) where entire N-sector of monument has been quarried in antiquity. Monument depicted on 1840-41 OS 6-inch map as a sub-circular enclosure (dims. c. 60m ENE-WSW; c. 55m NNW-SSE) truncated by the Cashel-Golden road across N-sector. Enclosure (TS060-083002-) is to immediate SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.