Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Townlough Lower, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townlough Lower
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.86548, -8.41442
- SMR number
- TN019-055----
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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 the S shoreline of Lough Derg with Townlough Castle (TN019-018----) 200m to S. Low elongated tree-covered mound of earth and stones known locally as the 'Fairy Clump' or 'Fairy Mound' (pers. comm. Derek Ryan) and visible today as a grove of trees on Digital Globe aerial imagery. Depicted as a grove of trees and not as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. It has been suggested that this earthwork may be the burial mound from which the townland Tuaim Locha (Townlough) was named (pers. comm. Derek Ryan; www.logainm.ie)
See attached photographs taken by Derek Ryan
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Derek Ryan
Date of upload: 18 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone group1 mi
- Anomalous stone group1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.