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Ringfort - rath

Ballyhickey, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyhickey, 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
Ballyhickey
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.33019, -7.87397
SMR number
TS082-057----

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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 flat ground at the S edge of a N-S ridge, in pasture. Circular enclosure (diam. 32.7m N-S; 33.4m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.44m; ext. H 0.91m) with a high stone content and a wide shallow fosse (Wth 4.7m at top, 2.8m at base; D 0.23m). It has a flat interior and is planted with mature conifers on the inner edge of the bank with a second round of planting immediately inside, also one tree in the centre. There is an entrance in the SSW (Wth 2.5m). Clear stone revetment on inner face in E quadrant. The monument is badly eroded by cattle, the bank is denuded and there is no grass growing in the interior. While this monument has ornamental planting it is likely to be a ringfort reused as a tree-ring. On the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map the enclosure is shown with a field boundary immediately to the N and W, this boundary deliberately kinks out to accommodate the ringfort.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 10 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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