Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tooreen (thurles Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen (thurles Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70016, -7.79276
- SMR number
- TN041-024----
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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 very gentle ESE-facing slope leading down to a stream running N-S close to the E sector of the site. There is a well immediately to the NW. Identified as a possible enclosure on an aerial photograph taken in 1973 (GSIAP, S 462/1). 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.