Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyverassa, County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.