Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Garraunfadda, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraunfadda
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.91356, -8.29520
- SMR number
- TN014-036----
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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 slight rise in low-lying undulating pasture, sloping to the NW. Depicted as an irregular-shaped platform-type earthwork on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map and as a trapezoidal-shaped platform on the 1901-5 ed. A spindle whorl was found on site in the 1950s when the site was being levelled with a bulldozer (NMI Acquisitions Register 1953). Present remains consist of a large raised area (diam. c. 50m) which is heavily overgrown with scrub and brambles.
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: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.