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Ringfort - rath

Derrygrath Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Derrygrath Lower, 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 Lower
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.36917, -7.81932
SMR number
TS082-018001-

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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 the crest of a ridge. The SE quadrant is in pasture and the bank in the W quadrant is incorporated in a field boundary. A field boundary running NE-SW transects the ringfort, the remainder of the monument is levelled, in a barley field. The monument is marked as a large, roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 67m N-S; c. 57m E-W) on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. The bank, (Wth 2m crest, 4.4m base; int. H 0.32m; ext. H 0.8m) is best preserved in the SE quadrant. There is no visible evidence of an external fosse. Neighbouring ringforts (TS082-018002-;TS082-018003-) lie 9.3m to the SE and c. 85m to the SSE respectively.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 21 January 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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