Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Oakhampton, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oakhampton
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.72606, -8.37601
- SMR number
- TN031-062----
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 SE-facing slope of rising ground overlooking a steep-sided ravine with a river below. A raised circular area (diam.25.65m NW-SE; 29.45m NE- SW) enclosed by well-preserved flat-topped bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 2m) reduced to a scarp at SE where the ravine forms a natural defence and a wide external fosse (Wth 3.5-5m; D 0.8m). No clear entrance feature visible - a gap in the bank (Wth 2m) at N may be the original entrance feature.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.