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Ringfort - rath

Ballygarrane (Tubbrid Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballygarrane (Tubbrid Par.), 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
Ballygarrane (Tubbrid Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.32937, -7.95660
SMR number
TS081-038001-

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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 steep NW-facing slope in hilly pastureland, just off the crest of a hill. The ringfort is very disturbed. It is bisected NE-SW by a field boundary. The NW half of the ringfort appears to have been levelled between the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map in 1840 and the 2nd ed. (1906) (diam. c. 21m N-S; c. 23m E-W). The bank in the SE half is partially levelled and partially disturbed by quarrying. The bank (Wth 1.4m crest, 3.3m base; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.6m) survives best in the SW quadrant, it is partially built on outcrop and there is a lot of stone in the bank composition. A field bank runs close to and parallel with the SW bank. There is a souterrain (TS081-038002-) in the interior, partially exposed, in the N quadrant, 9m from the bank. A shallow trench (Wth c.1.8m; 0.15m D) has been cut along the internal base of the bank in the SE quadrant.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 08 January 2014

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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