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
- 52.42042, -8.21470
- SMR number
- TS073-013----
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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 steep SE-facing slope of Slievenamuck mountain, the hillside is covered in forestry though the area of the ringfort has been left fallow. A forest road runs E-W c. 20m N of the monument. There is an oak tree on the upper bank and one in the interior. The interior (overall diam. c. 44m N-S; c. 48m E-W based on OS 6-inch map) and enclosing bank is heavily overgrown with grasses, holly, brambles, low scrub and dead wood. Due to the overgrowth only the N bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 1.27m; ext. H 0.28m) and a section of the NW quadrant were visible.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.