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Ringfort - rath

Carrickconeen, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrickconeen, 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
Carrickconeen
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.35977, -7.81270
SMR number
TS082-021----

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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 top of a ridge, sloping slightly to S with a depression immediately N of the monument which may be the result of quarrying. In hilly terrain, under pasture. Roughly circular ringfort (diam. 39m N-S; 38.5 E-W) enclosed by a bank with an impressive profile in the N quadrant (Wth 2m crest, 6.2m base; int. H 0.62m; ext. H 2.17m), external height may be exaggerated by external quarrying, bedrock is exposed at the base of the bank. In the SE and SW quadrants the bank is 1.3m above the exterior. There is a cattle gap in the SW quadrant (Wth 1.1m) and in the NW (0.6m). There is an entrance in the E quadrant (Wth 1.8m). There is a hollow in the centre of the ringfort (diam. 2.6m N-S; 2.8m E-W; D 0.43) with a slight bank (Wth 1.3m; ext. H 0.2m) around the perimeter, possibly a result of robbing or a collapsed souterrain. An external field bank with a stone revettment runs concentric with the ringfort in the W-S-E sectors.

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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