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Ringfort - rath

Kilcommon More (South), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilcommon More (South), 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
Kilcommon More (South)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.34054, -7.94278
SMR number
TS081-033001-

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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 the N-facing slope of a gentle hill in undulating pastureland. Ringfort (TS081-033002-) lies 50m to the NW. Monument very overgrown, has been fenced off. Roughly circular area (based on depiction on 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map) with a diam. c. 35m (OPW Correspondence 1969), enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.4-2m crest, 4.4m base; int. H 0.95-1.9m; ext. H 1.1m). In the SE quadrant the bank is very high and quite disturbed, appears to be the result of fairly recent dumping. Number of tree stumps around the bank. No visible evidence of an external fosse. Bank somewhat disturbed in the NW quadrant but still intact. The field boundaries to NW and W of the ringfort depicted on the 2nd ed. OS 6-inch map have been removed, the material probably dumped on the bank in the SE quadrant.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 07 January 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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