Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clooninihy, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooninihy
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01931, -8.19007
- SMR number
- TN006-013----
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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 flat poorly drained land at the W edge of a bog. A circular enclosure which shows up on an aerial photograph taken in 1970 (CUCAP, BDL 79) and is also depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1843 ed. OS 6-inch map. Also a bivallate circular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, BDL 79; GSIAP, R202). Neither site is 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
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.