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Ringfort - rath

Mortlestown (Cooleagh Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Mortlestown (Cooleagh 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
Mortlestown (Cooleagh Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.53660, -7.67414
SMR number
TS062-018----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

In improved pasture, on an E-facing slope. A ringfort (TS062-019----) lies c. 60m to the SW. A circular area (dims. 32m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (overall Wth 5.1m; Wth at top 1.75m; int. H 0.3; ext. H 1.45m), which is reduced to a scarp (Wth 2.5m; H 1.2m) in the SE quadrant where there is also a gap (Wth 2.5m); a well defined fosse (Wth 3.25m; D 1m), which is U-shaped upslope in the W sector and flat bottomed elsewhere; and an outer bank (overall Wth 4.55m; Wth at top 0.75m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.55m), which is well preserved from SE-W-NE and is levelled out and incorporated into a field boundary from NE-E-SE as depicted on the 2nd (1905) ed. OS 6-inch map. There is a gap (Wth 2.5m) in the outer bank at N and a break (Wth 7m) at NNE-NE. An outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.1m) is visible in the NE quadrant and traceable intermittently elsewhere. The concave interior slopes gently to the E.

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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