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Ringfort - rath

Caherclogh, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Caherclogh, 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
Caherclogh
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.40073, -7.68017
SMR number
TS077-041----

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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

At highest point within a 200ft contour area. Ringfort very overgrown with tress, scrub and brambles (diam. internal 38m; overall 68m based on OS 25-inch map). Surrounded on N, NE, E and NW sides by road. Pasture lies immediately S of the monument. Ringfort enclosed by a bank (Wth 1.8m crest, 8.6m base; int. H 0.91m; ext. H 2.3m) which is reduced to scarp in places. The bank slopes gradually to interior and drops steeply to external fosse. In the N and NE quadrant the fosse is wide, flat-bottomed and waterlogged. Elsewhere the fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 1.9m) appears to have been re-cut as it is well defined with sharp edges. There is a broad outer bank (Wth 3.5m crest, 6m base; ext. H 1.6m) which has been badly eroded in the E quadrant leaving isolated islands of bank. The outer fosse (Wth 1.6m; D 1.9m) is steep sided, except in the S quadrant where it is wide and waterlogged. Entrance (Wth 2m) in the inner bank with evidence of a low causeway, fosse waterlogged on either side. The outer bank is partially destroyed at this point, however the S side survives and appears to be terminated with stone revettment along inner edge of bank.

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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