Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacourty, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.41513, -8.20250
- SMR number
- TS073-008----
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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 a SSE-facing slope in foothills of Slievenamuck mountain, in gently undulating terrain under lush meadow. A ringfort which is conjoined with a slightly smaller ringfort (TS073-008001-) to the SSE. A circular ringfort (diam. 32.7m NE-SW; 32.6m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4.9m; int. H 0.94m; ext. H 1m) and fosse (Wth 2.6m) which is very subtle in NE quadrant. (Wth c. 2m; D 0.1m). The remains of an earthen field bank run N-S to the E of the monument. It is a fairly clean ringfort with some brambles in the interior and around the edge of the bank. The fosse between the two ringforts is heavily overgrown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 June 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.