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Ringfort - rath

Rathkenty, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rathkenty, 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
Rathkenty
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.41927, -7.67331
SMR number
TS077-016----

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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 the summit of a broad hill, the ground slopes off to the NE beyond the monument, in pasture. Though the monument has been levelled it is still evident as a bivallate ringfort (diam. 44.4m N-S; 50m E-W), with much denuded inner bank (Wth. 1.5m crest; 5.8m base; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.61m); fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.7m) and outer bank (Wth 6.3m; ext. H 0.12m). There is a small pond immediately E of the monument, the outer bank adjacent to this pond is gone and the inner bank is degraded. In the SW quadrant the inner bank is gone and there is shallow quarrying into the interior, the fosse is filled-up, may be possible causeway, there are slight traces of an outer bank in this area. On the 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map a limekiln is indicated on the outer bank in the NE quadrant. The inner and outer banks in the NE quadrant are almost completely levelled. In the S quadrant thre is some quarrying into the inner bank from the fosse.

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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