Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Loughane Upper, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughane Upper
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77973, -8.09439
- SMR number
- TN027-142----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a high E-W ridge, sloping slightly to the SE, in pastureland. Depicted as an oval enclosure on the 1st ed. (1843) OS 6-inch map with a field boundary transecting the W portion. Not indicated on the 1904 ed. suggesting it was levelled in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Not visible at ground level.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.