Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygarrane (tubbrid Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.