Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brenormore, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brenormore
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.43927, -7.53728
- SMR number
- TS071-023001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 forestry, on an E-facing slope, on foothills of Carrickabrock. Circular area (diam. 27m) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.5m; Wth 3.8m), reduced to scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 1.55m) E-S. Possible entrance (Wth 3m) at N and W (Wth 4m). Trace of fosse (basal Wth 0.75m; overall Wth 3.05m; D 0.3m) SW-W. Interior tends downslope to E with prevalent slope. Occasional rabbit burrows visible in bank. A 10m forestry buffer zone around monument is used as a driving line. A possible souterrain (TS071-023002-) is associated.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.