Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Shanacloon (bourney Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanacloon (bourney Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.88334, -7.84510
- SMR number
- TN023-072----
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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 pasture. Indicated as a curvilinear field on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map but not on the 1902 revision. A large roughly circular enclosure (int. diam. 75m N-S; 78m E-W) defined by scarp (H above ext. ground level 0.5-0.75m in N and W sectors; c. 1.5m in E sector) and a fosse (Wth c. 3.5m), visible on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, imagery date 2011-2013) identified and reported by Emmet Byrnes and Johnny Ryan. A small farmyard is depicted in the SE quadrant on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and remnants of this still survive, within a small rectangular copse of trees (pers. comm. Johnny Ryan, 30 March 2023). The perimeter of the enclosure is truncated in the SE sector by modern field drain (Wth 5m) (ibid.).
See attached imagery:
TN023-072----_01 Satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, imagery date 2011-2013)
TN023-072----_02 Overall view of enclosure looking W (photograph by Johnny Ryan)
TN023-072----_03 E half of enclosure looking S (photograph by Johnny Ryan)
TN023-072----_04 NW side of enclosure showing infilled fosse, looking S (photograph by Johnny Ryan)
TN023-072----_05 S end of enclosure truncated by later field boundary, looking NE (photograph by Johnny Ryan)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.