Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Farneybridge, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farneybridge
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66121, -7.89891
- SMR number
- TN041-054----
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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 break in a SE-facing slope in rolling pastureland with a ringfort (TN041-053001) visible upslope to the NNE. Marked as a roughly circular or oval enclosure on the 1st ed. (1843) OS 6-inch map but not indicated on the 1952-3 ed. Although levelled, the site is visible as an irregular/roughly rectangular enclosure (dims. 28.5m N-S; 19m E-W) with rounded corners defined by a low bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H 0.3m) reduced to a scarp at S (H 0.42m). In the SW sector there is a suggestion of a fosse (Wth 2.8m) defined by lush, dark grass growth. The SE portion has been completely levelled.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.