Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Derryfadda, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryfadda
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74497, -7.66357
- SMR number
- TN036-050054-
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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 flat bogland. A poorly preserved site consisting of a crudely built wooden subcircular platform (dims. 4.29m N-S x 4.85m E-W) constructed of irregularly deposited roundwood and brushwood (Murray 1999, Derryfadda 218, 53-4).
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
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.