Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ballynakill, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.92310, -7.85318
- SMR number
- TN017-094----
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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
In rough pasture. A large circular enclosure (diam. c. 100m), defined by a bank and or scarp which is visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth; imagery date 18 January 2018), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. On the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the subsequent 1901-05 revision, the perimeter from NW-N-ESE is indicated as a curving field boundary, while the SSW-WSW perimeter is indicated as a curving kink in the field boundary to the S. The former field boundary has since been removed, while the latter is still upstanding. There is a small quarry depression (diam. c. 7m), indicated on the 25-inch OS map, near the centre of the enclosure in the NE sector. Traces of relic ridge and furrow are visible on the satellite imagery running NW-SE across the monument.
See attached imagery:
TN017-094----_01 Google Earth; imagery date 18 January 2018
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 3 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.