Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinvee, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvee
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.47034, -8.21444
- SMR number
- TS066-063----
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 improved pasture; evidence of old water channels. Circular area (dims. 28m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by low bank (Wth 4.65m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.6m) NE-E and at SSW and by a scarp (Wth 3.2m; H 1.8m) elsewhere; obscured by briars E-SE. Breach (Wth 0.8m) cut into bank at ENE for drainage. Fosse (basal Wth 2.25-2.5m; overall Wth 7.05-7.25m; D 0.8-0.9m) is waterlogged except where it is partially backfilled NNW-N. Fosse breached (Wth 5m) on exterior at NNW where drainage channel (long axis NNW-SSE) enters. Interior slightly uneven. Field boundary respects monument to SSE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.