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
- 52.49639, -7.63800
- SMR number
- TS062-136----
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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, immediately W of a curving 400ft contour. An oval area (dims. 44m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by the remains of a bank (overall Wth 11.8m; Wth at top 1.8m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.2m) SW-W-N which is best preserved in the SW quadrant and is reduced to scarp (Wth 2.35m; H 1.05m) from N-E-SW. The bank is breached by cattle intermittently from NW-N-NNE. An outer fosse (overall Wth 3m; basal Wth 1m; D 0.15m) is visible from WNW-N-ENE and is barely traceable from S-W-WNW. There is an entrance (Wth 3.75m) at S. The interior slopes to the E. The corner of a field boundary runs into the fosse in the S quadrant.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.