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Ringfort - rath

Ballincor (Colman Par.),Ballinlough (Colman Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballincor (Colman Par.), Ballinlough (Colman 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
Ballincor (Colman Par.),Ballinlough (Colman Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.42606, -7.72852
SMR number
TS077-002----

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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

In flat pasture on broad ridge in gently undulating terrain. Well-preserved univallate ringfort. Roughly circular area (diam. 44m N-S; 48.7m E-W) enclosed by a broad, high bank (Wth 2.8m crest, 7.6m base; int. H 1.17m; ext. H 2.72m) and wide shallow fosse (Wth 2.9m; D 0.86m), waterlogged along W side. Trees growing on bank. Interior grass-covered with some nettles. Portion of bank removed in NW quadrant where two field boundaries meet. Break (Wth 2m) in bank in SSW quadrant, the fosse appears to have been filled up with a later fosse immediately SSW and a modern, stone revetted, causeway with drain built across the latter. Post and barbed wire fence runs along top of bank in N quadrant. External fosse in N quadrant has a sharp profile, possible re-cut. Bank in NE sector has been levelled and external fosse filled in, field bank runs NNW-SSE up to N side of this break. Bank denuded at SSE but not broken through.

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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