Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Traverston, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Traverston
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79409, -8.16795
- SMR number
- TN027-171----
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 in grassland in upland area with old woodland to N as depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Traverston House located 320m to NNE. Outline of possible moated site (approx. ext. dims. 43m NNW-SSE x 52m NE-SW) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Depicted as a trapezoidal shaped field on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map and not as an antiquity. Present remains consist of a roughly square-shaped area enclosed by a low wide earthen bank with traces of an external fosse.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey.
Date of upload: 2 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.