Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drangan More, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drangan More
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.42320, -7.95850
- SMR number
- TS075-012----
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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 break of S-facing slope of hill in cut meadow. Enclosure (TS075-013----) located c. 50m to the SE. Roughly circular area (diam. 29.7m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank reduced to scarp (H 0.78-1m) Ringfort very heavily overgrown with nettles and scrub around edge. Bank planted with young conifers. Monument fenced off with electric fencing. Electricity pole erected in 1927 on bank in E quadrant. External face of bank has been truncated, cattle denudation and/or machine 'cleaning' of edge of ringfort. Lot of dead wood dumped on top of scarp in N quadrant. Dip in ground level at base of bank indicting former fosse (Wth 3-6m), though not as apparent on N side.
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.