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Ringfort - rath

Garryntemple,Loughtally, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Garryntemple, Loughtally, 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
Garryntemple,Loughtally
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.35479, -7.79306
SMR number
TS082-046----

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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 summit of a ridge in undulating pasture. Monument is heavily overgrown. It is depicted as a roughly circular enclosure on both the 1st (1840) and 1904-5 ed. OS 6-inch map (diam. c. 48m N-S; c. 43m E-W). It is enclosed by a high earthen and stone bank (Wth 2m crest, 4.5m base; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.77m) and an external fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.36m). There is a lot of shale in the bank composition. There is a break in the bank in the NNW quadrant but this is much obscured by brambles. In the SSE sector the bank has been badly disturbed by badgers. There is a small quarry at the external base of the bank in the S quadrant. A gap (Wth 1m) in the bank in the SW quadrant has been broken through to give access to a dumping area. There are several cars dumped in the interior and in the fosse. The bank in the NE quadrant is badly overgrown. A very deep, wide channel (Wth 2.5m; D 2.3) has been cut along the W quadrant, running N-S, with bank thrown-up on the W side. The channel is very steep-sided and appears to be the result of 19th-century activity, it is indicated on the 1904-5 ed. OS 6-inch map.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 04 February 2014

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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