Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
MacReary, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- MacReary
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38546, -7.44384
- SMR number
- TS079-046----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a SE-facing slope, under pasture, in gently undulating terrain sloping down towards a pond, the water of which laps up against the outer edge of the inner bank of the SE quadrant of the ringfort. There is a well at the N end of the pond. Identified on aerial photographs taken in 1996 (ASIAP (26) 30-1; ASIAP (27) 12-13). A much denuded bivallate ringfort (diam. 31.5m E-W; N-S not obtainable as banks in S quadrant have been destroyed) defined by a bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.33m; ext. H 0.5m); fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.32m) and outer bank (Wth 5.5m; H 037m). The outer bank is visible from SW-W-NE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.