Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Graigue (Temple-etney Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigue (Temple-etney Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.39560, -7.57357
- SMR number
- TS078-035----
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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
Just off the crest of a flat-topped hill, on a gentle W slope, in the valley below the S slopes of Slievenamon mountain, in pasture. Ringfort fenced with wooden fencing and electric wire. Interior is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. Roughly circular area (dims. 45m N-S; 49m E-W based on 25-inch OS map) enclosed by a bank (Wth 6.6m; H above int. 0.75m; H above fosse 2.2m) and fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 0.6m).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.