Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathkenny, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkenny
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.49972, -7.63986
- SMR number
- TS062-135----
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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 improved pasture, on an E-facing slope. An enclosure (TS062-109----) is located c. 200m to the NW. An oval area (dims. 27m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by the remains of bank reduced to scarp (Wth 0.9m; H 1.1m) which is levelled into the fosse in the S quadrant and a wide, shallow fosse (overall Wth 5.55m; basal Wth 3.5m; D 0.5m) and the poorly preserved intermittent remains of an outer bank (overall Wth 4.65m; Wth at top 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m) SE-S-WSW, WNW and NNW-N-NE. The fosse is best preserved from SW-N-ENE, is backfilled from ENE-E-ESE, is shallow and poorly preserved ESE-S-SW and appears backfilled at WSW. There is a possible causeway (Wth 2m) at NNW. According to Cahill (1982) material from the field boundary running E-W to S, has been backfilled into the fosse.
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 Unpublished M. A. thesis.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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.