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Ringfort - rath

Marlfield, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Marlfield, 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
Marlfield
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.35167, -7.75512
SMR number
TS083-013----

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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 break of an E-facing slope, in undulating pasture. Grass-covered, raised, roughly circular area (dims. 38m N-S; 39m E-W) with denuded earth and stone bank, mostly reduced to scarp (H 0.5-1.31m W and E sectors respectively). Scarp higher on downslope side. Field boundary runs N-S immediately W of W bank and townland boundary runs E-W to N of monument. Limited quarrying in the SW quadrant at the base of bank. There is a quarry pit E of the ringfort. There is no visible evidence of an external fosse and no visible entrance, however, there may have been an entrance in the W quadrant where the bank is much denuded.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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