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Ringfort - rath

Prospect (Rathcool Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Prospect (Rathcool Par.), 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
Prospect (Rathcool Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.46961, -7.75100
SMR number
TS070-034----

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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

On ground sloping gradually to W in undulating terrain, under pasture. Ringfort is enclosed by a post and pail fence along outer edge of fosse and perimeter is heavily overgrown with scrub, otherwise interior is clean except for brambles in the NW quadrant. Roughly circular ringfort (diam. c. 30m) defined by a bank (Wth 7.8m; int. H 1.38m; ext. H 2.15m) and fosse (Wth 5m; D 1.4m) which in the W quadrant is waterlogged. Hedgerow runs N-S up to S quadrant into the fosse and skirts along the SW sector. Causewayed entrance (Wth 5.2m) in E quadrant. Cattle gap (Wth c. 1.5m) broken through bank in S quadrant. A shallow drain has been dug into the fosse in the E sector and a drainage trench cuts through the counterscarp in the SW sector.

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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