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Ringfort - rath

Curraleigh West, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Curraleigh West, 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
Curraleigh West
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.25429, -8.14690
SMR number
TS089-001----

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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 N-facing slope in rough pasture in hilly upland terrain. An oval area (diam. 37.6m N--S; 29.6m E-W) enclosed by an earthen and stone bank (Wth 1.7m; basal Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.73-0.87m; ext .H 0.5m). The bank has a high stone content which suggests that the bank may be a collapsed stone wall or have been stone faced. In the N quadrant, where the bank is particularly denuded, the possible internal facing of a wall is visible (Wth c. 1.1m). There is a small oval mound (dims. 2.5m x 3.3m; H 0.35m) in the SE quadrant and some dumping of stones is evident along the outer face of the bank in the SE quadrant. There is no visible evidence of an entrance or external fosse. The external face of the bank in the SW quadrant is abutted by a stone field boundary.

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.

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