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Enclosure

Friarsfield, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Friarsfield, 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
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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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 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

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

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