Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Holycross, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Holycross
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63713, -7.87262
- SMR number
- TN047-121----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Aerial photograph (GB89.AB.10) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse; a circular enclosure (TN047-120) is located immediately to the south-west. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1989. On vertical aerial photograph which is backdrop to ASI website note two parallel fosses running NE to SE which appear to align with this enclosure - significance uncertain.
The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of this report: 26/10/09
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision: 13 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.