Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Lackenacoombe, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackenacoombe
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59558, -8.12047
- SMR number
- TS051-006----
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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
On the summit of a hill with good panoramic views in all directions. A large circular waterlogged area (diam. 45m N-S; 47m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a bank (top Wth 1m; base Wth 3m; ext. H 1.2-1.9m; int. H 0.7m) of earth and stone with traces of a waterlogged outer fosse (Wth 1.5m; ext. D 0.35m). The interior is very wet and marshy which along with the well-preserved nature of banks and hilltop location casts doubt on its antiquity. It is depicted on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular grove of trees at the end of a plantation of trees associated with nearby Lackenacoombe House. Field boundaries radiate out from the bank at the NW, NE and SE as depicted on the OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.