Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Lahesseragh (killea Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lahesseragh (killea Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84742, -8.21520
- SMR number
- TN020-112----
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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
Field report from Celie O'Rahilly (3 March 1994): 'Possible Ringbarrow, Td Lahesseragh…This is located in a flat grazing field which seems to be pegged out as sites, possibly for housing development. It consists of a mound, <1m high, with a roughly circular depression, of ca 14m diameter, in the centre. It was noted when walking the proposed Nenagh By-pass and, although it is not affected by the line of the road'.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.