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Ringfort - rath

Ballynaraha, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynaraha, 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
Ballynaraha
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.37052, -7.54326
SMR number
TS084-003----

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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 E-facing slope of a gentle N-S ridge, in pasture. A raised, roughly circular area (diam. 22m N-S; 20.7m E-W), defined by scarp (H 0.32m S quad.; 0.92m upslope; 1.76m downslope) and surrounded by a fosse (Wth 2.1m) cut into the ridge. The interior slopes quite steeply to E. The E side of the monument utilises the natural drop of the ridge. There are natural pools immediately to the NE and SE and one to W (diam. c. 6m) at the base of the scarp. There is a ramped entrance in the E quadrant between the two ponds (Wth c. 7m), it is quite steep and narrows towards the exterior. There are clumps of scrub and brambles on the SE edge of the monument and also in the centre of the interior and along the N side which has been fenced off with post and wire fencing. Otherwise the interior is grass-covered and cattle poached in places, the scarp is quite denuded. A field boundary runs E-W along the N quadrant.

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.

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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