Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curragh (ballybacon Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (ballybacon Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.27383, -7.86808
- SMR number
- TS088-027----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the River Tar valley floor, the river flows E-W c. 50m N of the ringfort. The ringfort has been levelled but is still visible as a small circular area (diam. 23.6m N-S; c. 23m E-W) defined by a flattened bank (Wth 6.8m; int. H 0.28m; ext. H 0.41m). In the W quadrant the bank is no longer apparent, the entrance may have been in this sector. The field has been reclaimed and is now under grass. A field boundary immediately W of the ringfort curves around to respect the monument.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 02 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.