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Situated on high ground with extensive views. An impressive raised circular area (diam. 39m N-S; 50m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with wide, flat-bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 6m; D 1m) with causewayed entrance at NE. The inner bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.3-6m) is the best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 0.3m) is only visible from SE to S - elsewhere it is destroyed. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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Rathmore — Rathmore (borrisokane Par.)

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