Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Redwood (lorrha Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Redwood (lorrha Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.12131, -8.09658
- SMR number
- TN001-009----
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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
Situated on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside with an enclosure site (TN001-008) to the N and an enclosure (TN001-010) to the E. Hachured as a circular enclosure on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map. Described by Healy (1979, 31) as a ringfort 40m in diameter. Not visible at ground level.
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
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.