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Ringfort - rath

Derrygrath Upper, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Derrygrath Upper, 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
Derrygrath Upper
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.37137, -7.83598
SMR number
TS082-013001-

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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 flat-topped E-W ridge in undulating terrain surrounded by pasture. Derrygarth church (TS082-014----) and graveyard (TS082-014001-) visible c. 100m to the S. According to Power (1908, 30) 'a tall and slender pillar stone', possibly a standing stone (TS076-050002-), now missing, stood 'Not many yards from the outer rampart of the lios', near the NE corner of the field. Trivallate ringfort (int. diam. c. 28m; overall diam. c. 70m based on 1904-05 ed. OS 6-inch map), enclosed by an flattened inner bank (Wth 4m crest, 0.2m base; int. H 2.25m; ext. H 3.25m); wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 1.8m); middle bank with rounded profile (Wth 2m crest, 4.4m base; ext. H 1.95m); wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m; D 1.5m) and outer bank with rounded profile (Wth 1.8m crest, 4.1m base; ext. H 1.1m), though the outermost bank has been reduced to scarp in the W sector. Banks are earthen with some stone protruding from the inner bank. Fosse quite water-logged in the N-NE sector. The ground is very disturbed in the interior and the inner bank has been levelled from SE-NE-N. In the NNE sector there are small heaps of earth caused by badgers. The interior and most of the banks are heavily overgrown with nettles and brambles. There is no well-defined entrance though there is a slight causeway across the inner fosse at the SE sector.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 21 January 2014

References

Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.

Nearby in the register

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

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