Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garryroan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryroan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.33987, -7.97731
- SMR number
- TS081-026----
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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, in gently undulating terrain, under pasture. Circular area (diam. 34.3m N-S; E-W not obtainable due to heavy bramble growth, particularly in W quadrant) enclosed by a high, steep, earthen bank (Wth 1.8m crest, c. 5m base; int. H c. 3m; ext. H 1.7m). In the interior the N quadrant has been quarried into (D 1.08m) which accentuates the height of the bank. Entrance in the S quadrant (Wth 2m), the bank reduces in size towards the entrance. The whole bank is heavily overgrown with scrub. There was an outer fosse but this has been filled-in.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.