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Enclosure

Gragaugh, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Gragaugh, County Tipperary South, 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
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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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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