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Ringfort - rath

Mayladstown, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Mayladstown, 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
Mayladstown
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.40981, -7.50674
SMR number
TS078-027----

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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 NW slope, c. 100m below the summit of the hill, in upland terrain under pasture. Small circular enclosure (diam. 26.1m N-S; 25.5m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 2.4m crest, 4.3m base; H above int. 0.44m; H above ext. 0.7m). Mature conifers are growing around the bank, some trees which has been planted in the interior have fallen. In the N quadrant a field boundary, running roughly E-W, kinks around the monument, the stone wall of this field boundary has been built up against the outer face of the bank on this side. Interior slopes to NW. In W sector the bank is largely reduced to scarp. Lot of shale in bank construction. No obvious entrance feature though there is a gap (Wth 1.5m) in the E quadrant, though partially obscured by the trunk of a mature deciduous tree. This monument, so high up on one of the outlying hills of Slievemanmon, is not in a typical ringfort location. The fact that it is also planted with conifers suggests that it may be a later 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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