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Ringfort - rath

Kilcash, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilcash, 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
Kilcash
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.39395, -7.50912
SMR number
TS078-038----

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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 gentle S-facing slope on broad ridge/hill. Pasture to W of ringfort. Post and wire fence runs roughly E-W up to W quadrant. Pasture to S, plantation of young deciduous trees to NE. Relatively new house immediately SE of monument, land immediately to S (E of N-S field boundary) has been sold recently along with the ringfort. Modern two storey house has been built in the field SW of the monument. Field boundary runs up to NW and SW quadrant running N-S and curves around W half of ringfort. Monument is roughly circular (ext. diam. including fosse c. 40m N-S). NW half of ringfort is defined by inner bank (Wth 2.9m crest, 5.8m base; H above int. 0.65m; H above fosse 1.4m) and wide fosse (Wth 3.5m). Outer earthen bank (Wth 3.9m; H above ext. 0.75m) only evident in W-NW quadrant may be a field bank which is respecting the existing monument. Outer fosse not visible in S quadrant, it peters out in SE. The inner bank in the SW quadrant is reduced to scarp. Interior is heavily overgrown with scrub. Ringfort visible on aerial photograph (GSI June (no year) S.510/511), when neither house to SW or E has been constructed, though the field boundary running N-S is visible.

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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