Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
St. Johnstown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St. Johnstown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathroe
- Coordinates
- 52.53255, -7.64367
- SMR number
- TS062-026----
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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 pasture, on elevated area of an E-facing slope; land also falls to N and S. An enclosure (TS062-025----) lies c. 150m to W. A roughly circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a probable bank and a fosse (overall Wth 6m; basal Wth 2m; D 0.75m). The bank is engulfed by an impenetrable ring of gorse which is extending into the interior and is particularly dense in the SSE sector, obscuring the fosse and a field boundary which runs E-W along the S edge of the monument. According to Cahill (1982) in 'c. 1975. Interior of site and inner face of bank stripped to provide material for farm roads; core of bank completely exposed; largely composed of shale chips [and] ditch filled with debris of field clearance'. A large pond (dims. 16m N-S; c. 14m E-W) off-centre to the W may be the remains of the quarrying mentioned by Cahill. The monument is fenced off from surrounding field and is ungrazed.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Cahill, M. 1982 The archaeology of the Barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Unpublished M. A. thesis.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.