Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Deerpark (horeabbey Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark (horeabbey Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Arbour
- Latest-edition OS map
- Arbour
- Coordinates
- 52.50890, -7.90382
- SMR number
- TS060-085----
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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, undulating pasture, with an excellent view of Rock of Cashel to NE. Oval area (overall dims. 39m ENE-WSW; 28m NNW-SSE) defined by remains of levelled bank (overall Wth 18m; Wth at top 4.5m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 0.05m) which is better defined on interior NE-SE and less defined (overall Wth 6m; Wth at top 4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.05m) SW-NW and NW-NE. This bank may correspond to field boundary depicted on latest edition OS 6-inch map. Possible fosse (overall Wth 4.5m; basal Wth 1m; D 0.15m) NE-SE but this may be a drainage feature. Interior is uneven and sides slope inward from E and S to a generally level area. The monument is depicted on the 1st (1840-41) ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (map dims. 47m). On the 2nd (1906) ed. map the monument is depicted with hachures indicating a quarry. According to Wheeler (OPW files 1957), 'the site marked as Arbour on the map is of no archaeological interest. He describes it as a 'quarry-hole with an ice-house inside and a tree-ring around it' (ibid.). Local information confirms the presence of an ice-house here until relatively recent times. This monument may be a tree-ring, though an earlier enclosure could have been utilised for this purpose.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.