Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bawnmadrum, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawnmadrum
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.89238, -7.75935
- SMR number
- TN017-067002-
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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 NE-facing slope in gently rolling terrain, in pasture with the possible site of a tower house and bawn (TN017-067001/003) c. 42m to the NW. Identified as a large oval enclosure (c. 30m x 40m) on an aerial photograph taken in 1973 (GSIAP, S 81/80). Not visible at ground level. Field boundaries S and E of this site have been levelled since the aerial photograph was taken.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.