Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybeg (newchapel Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (newchapel Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.42090, -7.75711
- SMR number
- TS076-017----
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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 NE-facing slope in undulating pasture. Field boundary runs NE-SW up to and along NW bank. Another field bank running NW-SE joins the monument in the NW sector. Large roughly circular enclosure (diam. 56m N-S; 62m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 2.8-4.1m crest and 7.3-7.8m base; H above int. 0.14-0.47m; H above fosse 2.15-0.77m); broad, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.7-2.9m; D 0.65-1.32m) measurements in NE and S quadrant respectively. Well-cut counterscarp at S quadrant. In W sector the fosse is waterlogged and bank eroded. Interior is grass covered. Hedgerow growing along top of bank from SW-W-N-NE and on counterscarp SW-NW. Scrub on counterscarp in S quadrant SE-S-SW. Outer fosse peters out in SE. NE quadrant bank is particularly high above ext., however external ground level has been quarried and is lower than original. Fosse begins again in NE. Fosse in NW quadrant may have been re-dug as part of field boundary ditch.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.