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Ringfort - rath

Glenacunna (Garrangibbon Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Glenacunna (Garrangibbon 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
Glenacunna (Garrangibbon Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.42654, -7.49036
SMR number
TS078-014----

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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 a SE-facing slope in undulating, hilly terrain, enclosed by pasture except to SW which is under tillage. Possible ringfort not marked on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and is depicted as an oval enclosure on 2nd (1901-05) ed. (diam. on 25-inch OS map 29m N-S; 19m E-W). It is planted with conifers, both internally, on inner bank and in immediate surrounding area. Monument defined by inner bank (Wth 1.7m crest, 3.1m base; H above int. 0.52m; H above fosse 0.73m), slight fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.4m) and outer bank (Wth 1.6m crest, 2.8m base; H above ext. 0.47m) visible from SW-W-NW. Gap in inner bank in WNW (Wth 2.15m). Inner bank is intact up to NW quadrant. N of this a mound of earth has been dumped on the line of the bank and there are no banks or fosse visible in NE or SE quadrant where there is some ground disturbance and the area is very overgrown with brambles. Gap (Wth 3.3m) in S. Post and wire fence runs outside the NW sector. Field boundary/wall skirts E side of the monument. Possible ringfort is vey poorly defined and planting with coniferous trees suggests that this may be a landscape feature.

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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