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
- 52.41487, -8.20224
- SMR number
- TS073-008001-
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
On a SSE-facing slope in foothills of Slievenamuck mountain, in gently undulating terrain under lush meadow. A ringfort which is conjoined with another ringfort (TS073-008----) to NNW. An oval ringfort (diam. 27.5m NE-SW; 21.1m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.24m; ext. H 1m) and a fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.31) which is largely obscured by lush grass growth, though visible in NNE sector. The fosse between the two ringforts is heavily overgrown. The interior is relatively clean, with some brambles and a lot of gorse in the SSW quadrant, thorn bushes on the bank and an oak tree in the interior. The field boundary to the W of the monument is very denuded.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 June 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.