Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ross (Kilfeakle Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ross (Kilfeakle Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.45609, -8.03169
- SMR number
- TS068-067----
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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
On a very slight rise in flat ground with tillage in surrounding fields. A raised roughly circular area (diam. 23m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.6m-1.1m over a slope Wth of 2.2-3.2m), which is lower from W-NE, and a wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.1-0.15m). There is scrub growing on the scarp from the NE-S, brambles in the SW quadrant and a large beech tree on the edge of the scarp in the W quadrant. The interior is relatively clear of scrub. The lack of a bank and the relatively small interior suggests this is not a typical ringfort.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 04 June 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.