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Castle - motte

Garranacanty, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte, Garranacanty, 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
Garranacanty
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Garranacanty Moat
Coordinates
52.48637, -8.13544
SMR number
TS059-110----

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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 gently undulating pasture on top of a natural gravel mound. The remains of a motte are defined by a steep scarp (Wth 4m; H 3m) from W-SE, with most of the S and central area (dims. c. 32m N-S; c. 30m E-W) quarried. There is a disturbed, uneven area in the NW sector, a plateau area (c. 26m NW-SE; 18m NE-SW) in the NE sector and short section of bank (Wth 8m; H 1.5m) at the SE. The mound not depicted on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map but is depicted on the later (1904) ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval mound (dims. c. 52m N-S; c. 35m E-W) with a quarry immediately to the S, with a trackway leading to the quarry. According to Flynn (1913, 13), who published a plan and section of the monument, the range of gravel hills NW-N-NE of Tipperary town terminate 'in the little hill of Garranacanty whose extremity is defended at the summit by a well defined fosse and rampart, whilst the summit itself affords evidences of attempts to construct a mound or enclosure'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Flynn, P. 1913 Ancient mounds and earthworks near Tipperary. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, no.1, 5-21.

Nearby in the register

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

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