Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Killough (templemore Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killough (templemore Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killough Grave Yard (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 52.85307, -7.83612
- SMR number
- TN023-043003-
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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
Located in undulating, hillocky terrain on ground sloping generally to the S. Only the E sector a larger enclosure (TN023-043001) has survived, defined by a curving bank the outer face of which has stone revetting. There is no evidence of an outer fosse. A field bank of earth with stone revetment crosses the site from NE to SW and there is no visible trace of the enclosure to the W of this field bank. Small stones probably represent grave markers at the S end of the enclosure. There is a small cairn of stones (dims. 3.4m N-S; 4.1m E-W) near the field boundary at the S end with a bullaun stone (TN023-043002) visible. A gap (Wth 2m) in the bank in the NNE sector is due to sheep erosion. According to Stout (1984, 86-8) 'bones have been turned up in construction work at the southern edge of the existing site'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.