Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghscarteen, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghscarteen
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.50676, -7.73257
- SMR number
- TS062-077----
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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 flat, level terrain with stream running NW-SE along SW edge of ringfort, under pasture. Large bivallate enclosure (diam. c. 90m), only NW quadrant survives. It consists of an earthen, round-topped bank (Wth 4.25m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.26m); flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.75m); outer bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.85m; ext. H 0.83m) and possible outer fosse (Wth 4m; D 1m below the adjacent field boundary). Ringfort has been damaged by the construction of field banks and ditches to carry run off from springs. Pond on line of banks and fosse in NE quadrant. Field boundary running roughly E-W transects the ringfort, though the monument is not visible at ground level S of the boundary.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.