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Ringfort - rath

Foulkstown, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Foulkstown, 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
Foulkstown
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.52700, -7.75063
SMR number
TS062-031----

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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 W-facing slope in gently undulating terrain, surrounded by pasture, with large house, formerly Magorban Retory, c. 50m to SE. Circular area (diam. 40m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by a substantial round-topped earthen bank (Wth 7.6-8.4m; int.H 0.8-1m; ext. H 3.63-4.63m), waterlogged fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 1.8-3.4m) and round-topped outer bank (Wth 3.9-5.9m; ext. H 0.38-0.85), berm (Wth 5.8-11m), outer bank (Wth 7.1-12.7m; ext. H 1.7-2.25m) and outer fosse (Wth 1.7-4.3m; D 1.2-1.83m) which has been recut and utilised as a drainage ditch. There is an entrance (Wth 2.3-3.1m) in the NNW quadrant with a gap through the banks and a causeway (H 1.2m) over the inner fosse and a slight causeway over the outer fosse. There is a gap in the S quadrant (Wth c. 4m) where the inner bank has been pushed into the fosse and wooden planks placed to form a footbridge across the fosse. A later field bank runs N-S from the N quadrant across the outer fosse. Mature trees in interior and on banks. An early 19th-century monument, in the form of a pillar surmounted by an urn, was erected in the W quadrant in the interior, in memory of Thomas Brocklesby Godfrey of Beechmount House.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 13 October 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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