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Ringfort - rath

Ballyverassa, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyverassa, 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
Ballyverassa
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.30447, -7.96173
SMR number
TS087-009----

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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 a gentle SW-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Circular area (diam. c. 33m) delimited in the NE quadrant by a large earthen and gravel bank (Wth 1.4m crest, 4.3m base; int. H 1.45m; ext. H 1.61m), with a steep fall to the exterior and a gradual fall to the interior. The bank is very hard and compact. A road runs NW-SE along the external base of bank in the SE quadrant, the bank has been heightened as a result. The remainder of the ringfort, the S and W quadrants, has been levelled but is still visible as a low scarp with an external dip in the W quadrant which may indicate an external fosse. The surviving bank is very overgrown with a lot of dead wood piled up against the inner face in the NE sector. The monument appears to have been partially levelled between 1840 and 1907 based on the OS 6-inch cartographic evidence.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 20 November 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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