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Ringfort - rath

Ballybeg (Newchapel Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballybeg (Newchapel 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
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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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 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

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

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