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Ringfort - rath

Carrigeen (Caher Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrigeen (Caher 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
Carrigeen (Caher Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.36727, -7.93118
SMR number
TS081-078----

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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 edge of a natural height overlooking a small river valley, in undulating grassland. The river flows into the River Suir c. 200m to the E. Monument identified on Bing Maps (aerial image). A circular area (diam. 20m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed by a much reduced earthen bank (int. H 0.33m; ext. H 0.75m; Wth at crest 3.1m; overall 8m) in the S quadrant and elsewhere by a very gradual but distinctive scarp (int. H 0.12m; ext. H 0.4m; Wth 4.5m), an intervening fosse (Wth 3.5m) visible from SW-NE and an outer bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth at crest 3.5m; overall 8.8m) which is only evident in the NW-N sector. A post and wire fence runs N-S through the W edge of the monument. The outer slope of the inner bank on the S edge of the monument continues to fall externally with the natural fall of the ridge.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 June 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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