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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Behamore (Hawkshaw), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Behamore (Hawkshaw), County Tipperary North, 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
Behamore (Hawkshaw)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.97101, -8.00371
SMR number
TN011-020002-

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gradual N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture/tillage. A late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century four-storey tower house (TN011-020001) with attic composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with cut and dressed quoins which have been robbed at the SW and NW angles up to a height of 3.2m. An earthen bank which appears to be a tree-ring encloses the tower house. On the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map (1840) the site is depicted as being surrounded by a rectangular enclosure which by the 1903 ed. is replaced by a curving enclosure.

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.

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