Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shrough, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shrough
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.43338, -8.23110
- SMR number
- TS066-138----
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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 NE-facing slope. Remains of sub-circular area (dims. 18m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 1.1m; H 0.25m) and a possible fosse (Wth 4.25m; D 0.15m) W-WSW and NW-NNW. Interior has a gentle NE-facing slope and is slightly uneven. Drain (long-axis SW-NE) truncates monument to SE. Two mounds (L c. 3m; Wth 3.1m; H 0.15m) to immediate NE may be associated.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.