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Bastioned fort

Longfordpass North, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bastioned fort, Longfordpass North, County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Longfordpass North
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.69472, -7.64703
SMR number
TN042-060----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a SW-facing slope of rising ground surrounded by bogland with a nearby church (TN042-025) to the NW and an eighteenth-century barracks to the S. Only the earth and stone bank (Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1-2m) survives of the NE and SW pear-shaped bastions of a seventeenth-century artillery fort. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'being lately erected upon the sd lands a strong fort by name Fort Ireton' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 49). The fort originally consisted of a central rectangular area with four pear-shaped flanking bastions delimited by earth and stone banks with evidence of wall-footings protruding from the top of the banks in places. Low wall-footings of a rectangular building orientated on an E-W axis are visible in the fort interior.

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.

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