Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Reechestown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reechestown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.32231, -7.89017
- SMR number
- TS082-064----
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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
On gradual NE-facing slope, just off crest, in undulating terrain, under pasture. Small roughly circular ringfort (diam. 26.7m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a round-topped bank (Wth 3.3m crest, 5.1m base; int. H 0.73m; ext. H 1.65m) with a high stone content; flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.1m; D 1.52m) and outer bank (Wth 3.55; ext. H 0.5m). The banks are very overgrown with scrub, brambles and nettles. The vegetation is encoaching on the interior which is grass covered. An internal stone revetment is clearly visible on the bank in the N and SE quadrants. The monument is enclosed in the NE and SW quadrants by field boundaries running NW-SE. In the NE quadrant the outer face of the bank has been quarried into destroying the fosse and outer bank. The fosse is wider in the SE quadrant due to cattle erosion and the bank is quite denuded at S. There is an entrance in the E quadrant (Wth 1.4m), the ground 2m E of this has been quarried out.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 February 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.