Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Peppardstown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Peppardstown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.50937, -7.65115
- SMR number
- TS062-088----
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 fallow tillage, on a W-facing slope, just above a 500ft contour. Another bivallate ringfort (TS062-097----) lies c. 300m to the S. It is depicted on the 1903-04 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 35-40m; overall diam. c. 100m) with a tertiary road running N-S along the W edge. According to Cahill (1982) a field inspection in 1975 found this monument in 'good condition [with] two banks [and] two ditches'. However the monument had been levelled by 1995 as aerial photographs (OS 1995; ASIAP (39) 12-20, 03/08/1996) show the ringfort as a circular cropmark with two clear fosses. The plough soil is notably more stony in the area of the monument, which is not visible at ground level.
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 Unpublished M. A. thesis.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
- Gateway (present location)under 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.