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Enclosure

Brittas (St. Patricksrock Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Brittas (St. Patricksrock Par.), 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
Brittas (St. Patricksrock Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.52504, -7.91695
SMR number
TS060-061----

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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

On a NW-facing slope in gently undulating terrain, surrounded by grassland. A possible ringfort (TS060-062----) is visible c. 300m upslope to the SE. A roughly circular area (diam. 34.7m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by gently sloping scarp (H 0.5m; Wth 2.2m), a fosse (Wth 3.5m) and a possible outer bank (int. H 1.15m; ext. H 0.52m; Wth crest 1.8m; Wth base 3.85m) which has been augmented to form a field boundary or is a later field boundary which respects the curve of the monument. This outer bank/field boundary is evident from NE-E-SW and is indicated on the 1st (1840-41) ed. OS 6-inch map as a field boundary which, in the NE quadrant, continues northward to intersect with two other field boundaries. A field boundary, with a farm road running immediately W of it, runs roughly N-S through the W quadrant, truncating the western edge of the monument which is not visible at ground level W of this field boundary. The interior is fairly level and has been planted with a mixed plantation of coniferous and deciduous trees. The monument is fenced off by a wooden fence with electric wire.
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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