Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathmore (caher Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore (caher Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.37846, -7.85744
- SMR number
- TS076-069----
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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 slopes of a natural ridge running N-S along W edge of enclosure. There are subtle undulations in field. A ringfort (TS076-048----) 'Rathmore' is located c. 300m to S on crest of hill. According to Power (1908, 28) the '"Great Rath" The name-giving Rath is not that noted on the Ordnance Map and still surviving, but another, the site of which is traceable by north side of main road'. This would appear to be a large sub-rectangular enclosure (diam. c. 100m N-S; c. 50m E-W) which has been identified as a cropmark at this location on an aerial photograph (ASIAP (31) 15;(32) 3-7). The enclosure was bivallate, with an inner and outer fosse visible. The enclosure appears to have been widened at some point with the outer fosse being extended in the NE quadrant. The enclosure has a substantial conjoined enclosure (TS076-070001-) to the E and two smaller conjoined enclosures (TS076-070002-; TS076-070003-) to the SE. The larger conjoined enclosure (TS076-070001-) may be an annexe or may have existed prior to and been partially destroyed by the construction of the sub-rectangular enclosure. Field levelled c. 10 years ago and according to landowner the soil in this area is very black, quite different from the surrounding soil, concentrated where the irregular enclosure was located.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.