Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Kilmore Upper, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore Upper
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53441, -8.01452
- SMR number
- TS060-137----
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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 pasture, on a W-facing slope. Remains of levelled, roughly oval mound (dims. 16m E-W; 12m N-S) of black soil and heat shattered stone. Mound is defined by a gentle scarp (Wth 4m; H 0.3m) SSE-NNE and is levelled out NNE-SSE. Livestock have worn down through sod in centre revealing abundant heat shattered stone.
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.