Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardfinnan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardfinnan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.31405, -7.88178
- SMR number
- TS082-067----
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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 SW-facing slope in rolling pasture, with the River Suir c. 300m to the S. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 33m N-S; c. 38m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m base-7.5m base; int. H 1.33m; ext. H 1.87m) which is less pronounced upslope to the NE. The interior and banks are heavily overgrown with scrub.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 February 2014
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.