Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Friarsfield, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarsfield
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.49693, -8.12243
- SMR number
- TS059-106002-
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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 improved pasture, on a SSE-facing slope. This enclosure adjoins a ringfort (TS059-106001-) to the NW and consists of a large sub-rectangular area (dims. 56m NNW-SSE; 68m ENE-WSW) defined by low scarp (Wth 1.15m; H 0.1m) SW-NW-NNW, by levelled bank (Wth 10.65m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.1m) NNW-N and N-NE and levelled scarp resumes NE-SE. There are the remains of a possible fosse (Wth 3.25m; D 0.05m) SW-NW, N (Wth 3.65m; D 0.16m) and E-SE defined by dark discolouration of grass. There is an entrance (overall Wth 9.5m; basal Wth 4m) at the N. There are possible remains of an outer earthwork around the entrance which has been truncated by the field boundary (long-axis E-W) of modern house plots to the N. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope on the N side which continues to the centre where there is a steep break of slope, defining a basin area which slopes gradually down to the adjoining ringfort. A shallow, linear depression (long-axis E-W; Wth 14m; L c. 72m) defined by a levelled bank (overall Wth 5m; H 0.3m) to N and S, extends from NE of monument.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.