Gateway in Rathurles, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

Listed in the SMR (1992) and RMP (1998) as piers. These gatepiers are located in the field NE of Rathurles ringfort (TN021-012001). They consist of two large recumbent limestone blocks fomerly used as gatepiers to mark the entrance to the ringfort and are likely to be of nineteenth-century date.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN021-012003

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