Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrigeen (caher Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.