Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockroe (drangan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (drangan Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.51668, -7.57168
- SMR number
- TS063-018----
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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 a S-facing slope. A circular area (dims. 28m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an inner bank (Wth at top 1.1m; overall Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m), wide intervening fosse (basal Wth 2.4m; overall Wth 8.4m; D 0.3m) and the remains of an outer bank (Wth at top 1.6m; overall Wth 3.75m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.45m) from E-S-NW and otherwise only surviving intermittently where tree roots cling to it. The possible remains of an outer fosse (basal Wth 1.5m; overall Wth 3.45m; D 0.2m) are traceable from S-W-NW and both the outer and intervening fosse have been backfilled from NW-N-E. The inner bank has been badly eroded by cattle in the NE sector and has a gap (Wth 2m) at SSE. The intervening fosse is best preserved in the SE sector and from SSW-W-NW and has a slight step (Wth 1.25m; D 0.2m) on the outer side in places where the outer bank has slipped into it. The interior slopes down to S and is generally obscured by vegetation.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.