Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolapreavan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolapreavan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.26286, -8.15928
- SMR number
- TS086-031----
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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 a N-facing slope in low-lying pastureland. Stream flowing c. 30m to the NW. Oval area (diam. 23.7m N-S; 27.4m E-W) enclosed by a broad, low, earthen bank (Wth 2.5m crest, 5.5m base; int. H 0.27m; ext. H 0.82m); U-shaped fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.71m) and outer bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 0.27m). The outer bank is not evident in the NW quadrant. There is a causeway across the fosse in the N quadrant (Wth 3.9m). There are bushes growing on the bank on the E side with some gorse in the interior, otherwise clear of vegetation. In the S quadrant a lot of boulders and clay have been dumped in the fosse. The inner bank on the S side is reduced to scarp with a very gradual fall to the fosse.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.