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Ringfort - rath

Newtown (Clonbeg Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Newtown (Clonbeg Par.), County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newtown (Clonbeg Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.42002, -8.18721
SMR number
TS073-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a S-facing slope at the base of the S side of Slievenamuck mountain, in gently undulating terrain, 10m N of the main road through the Glen of Aherlow. It is currently in the grounds of a camping park and the surrounding field has been cut to form a lawn around the monument. A small circular area (diam. 15.5m N-S; 16m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.28m) and fosse (Wth c. 5m; D 0.18m), the latter is not evident in the S quadrant. The edge of the enclosure from SE-W-NNW is heavily overgrown with brambles. The bank survives best from SE-W-NW and is completely denuded in the E quadrant where it appears to have been levelled into the fosse. This quadrant may be location of the entrance. The interior, which slopes to the S, is overgrown with long grass and brambles.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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