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Ringfort - rath

Ballynamrossagh, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynamrossagh, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynamrossagh
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.43534, -8.26289
SMR number
TS066-129----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In improved pasture, on a gentle ENE-facing slope. Circular area (dims. 30m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by remains of low scarp (Wth 1.7m; H 0.75m) best preserved NE-S-SW and more gradual (Wth 2.75m; H 0.3m) and levelled out SW-W-N-NE. Wide, flat-bottomed intervening fosse (basal Wth 3.3m; overall Wth 6.25m; H 0.25m) is best preserved NE-S-SW and has been backfilled and is more gradual (basal Wth 3.85m; overall Wth 8.3m; D 0.15m) SW-W-N-NE. An outer bank (top Wth 2.4m; overall Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.65m) is present ENE-S-SW and stops abruptly at either end, where it has been truncated during the levelling process of the bank SW-W-N-NE. Potential remains of levelled bank NE-ENE appear to be preserved due to dog-leg in field boundary here. Interior level and featureless and tilts downslope slightly to ENE with prevalent slope. Interior ground level reduced D c. 0.25m around SW-arc and into SW-sector. There may have been an outer fosse, but earthen material (possibly from the levelled half of monument) has been banked up in places on exterior and interior of bank, encroaching into the intervening fosse and any potential outer fosse.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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