Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathcool, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcool
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.49140, -7.71754
- SMR number
- TS062-118----
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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
On level ground in gently undulating terrain, under pasture with channelised stream c. 250m to W. Roughly circular ringfort (diam. 29.3m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 7.8m; int. H 0.96m; ext. H 1.94m); fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 1.07m) and outer bank visible from NW-N (Wth 4.3m; ext. H 0.35m). Banks of earthen construction. Field boundary which ran E-W along S side of ringfort has been levelled and some of the material dumped in the monument, particularly in the W and S quadrants where it has filled the fosse and obscured the outer bank. The ringfort is grass covered, with scrub on the bank in the S quadrant and trees and scrub on the banks in the N sector. There is a gap (Wth 4m) in the W quadrant.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.