Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickconeen, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickconeen
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.36453, -7.80629
- SMR number
- TS082-022----
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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
Just off the crest of a hill on an E-facing slope, in undulating terrain, under pasture. Roughly circular area (diam. 32.9m N-S; 34.1m E-W) enclosed by an earthen and stone bank (Wth 2.1m crest, 5.7m base; int. H 1.12m; ext. H 1.63m) and external fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.66m). The monument is grass-covered with only limited bramble growth on the bank in the SW quadrant. The interior slopes gently to the E. There is a small quarry immediately E of the ringfort and some quarrying into the bank in the SW quadrant has taken place. There is a pronounced fosse on the upslope, W side, which may be the result of quarrying activity. The bank in the N quadrant has been removed, quarried out. In the NE quadrant there is no evidence of an external fosse or bank disturbance (Wth 1.6m crest, 2.2m base; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.85m). There is no definable entrance, though it may have been damaged by quarrying activity.
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.