Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gragaugh, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gragaugh
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56013, -7.52622
- SMR number
- TS055-052002-
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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
In grassland on a S-facing slope of rising ground in upland area with good views in all directions. No surface remains visible of any enclosure in area marked on the OS 6-inch map. According to local information this was the site of a ringfort enclosed by two or possibly three bank (SMR correspondence, 1991). May have been the ringfort described by Bersu in 1947 as a 'simple single ring-fort, destroyed by the landowner. 25-35 yards [22.8-32m] in diameter, 5ft [1.5m] above the level of the surrounding land surrounded by a steep embankment and a moat which is about 12 or 13ft [3.65-3.96m] at its deepest point. There are traces of an ancient road passing nearby' (NMI Correspondence Registers IA/259/47).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.