Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Camlin, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camlin
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.92180, -7.79496
- SMR number
- TN017-080----
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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
On the NE side of the site is a circular slot-trench enclosure approx. 25m in diameter.
The slot is full of post-packing stones and no break is visible. The slot still partly lies
underneath a baulk along the N LMA. Internally there are at least three curving slots,
each one filled with stones but none defining a complete circle and all are small (max.
3m diam). These possibly represent buildings. The enclosure is notably positioned on
a slope. Presumably, it was deliberately pitched like this to allow visibility in/out or
even for drainage on this hillside (flat areas of terraces are available if they had
wanted to build on them). This enclosure compares well to the Bronze Age enclosures
found at Ballybrowney Lower, Co. Cork (Eamonn Cotter, 2005, 'Bronze Age
Ballybrowney, County Cork' in NRA Monograph No. 2).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.