Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killavally, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavally
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.41808, -7.63319
- SMR number
- TS077-023----
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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 a SW-facing slope of long, roughly N-S running ridge, with forestry planted along top of ridge. Monument surrounded by pasture. Oval area (diam. 33.7m E-W; N-S not obtainable) enclosed by broad, high, earthen and stone bank (Wth 3.3m crest; int. H 1.08m; ext. H 1.63-2.29m). Scrub growing around bank and in SW quadrant. The interior, sloping to SW, is grass and nettle filled. The bank is very high above the exterior, particularly upslope to NE. A field bank, with a lot of small boulders, runs NW-SE c. 10m NE of ringfort and terminates directly E of monument. There is no visible external fosse. The bank is reduced to scarp in the SE-SW-NW quadrant. Limited dumping of stones against external face of bank in the SW quadrant. A portion of bank in the WNW sector has slipped towards the exterior. Ground level in the interior is quite disturbed, the result of small scale quarrying, with small hollow in SE quadrant with upcast to NE and SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.