Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Milltown Britton, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown Britton
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.41955, -7.66330
- SMR number
- TS077-019----
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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 flat, level ground with a stream flowing WNW-ESE c. 10m SW of ringfort, in pasture. The stream has been channalised into the field ditch. The ringfort has been ploughed out but is still discernible as a raised, roughly circular area (diam. 30.2m N-S; 29.6m E-W), defined by scarp which is best preserved in the NW sector (H 0.25m). Also in this sector there is a slight trace of an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.12m). The E quadrant extends out to the field boundary, immediately E of the ringfort, the ditch of which is waterlogged. This field boundary kinks out slightly to respect the enclosure. The field boundary between the stream and Grangebeg townland boundary to N has been removed. The monument was visited in 1982 and was described as being in poor condition with a very denuded bank and an infilled and waterlogged fosse, diam. 33m (Cahill 1982, unpublished).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Cahill, M. 1982 The archaeology of the Barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Unpublished M. A. thesis.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.