Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Prospect (rathcool Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.