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Enclosure

St. Patricksrock, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, St. Patricksrock, 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
St. Patricksrock
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.52019, -7.89067
SMR number
TS061-025026-

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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

The precinct of the cathedral and graveyard are defined by a stone wall. The SW angle including a corner tower, the W wall (L 43m) and the W end of the S wall (L 18m) of this enclosing wall appear to be medieval in date. In 1988 an area outside the W end of the Hall of the Vicars Choral (TS061-025005-), on the southern perimeter, was excavated (Manning 1989, 46). Evidence for two periods of gateway were uncovered, one pre-dating the 15th-century Hall of the Vicars Choral and one contemporary with it (ibid.). In both cases evidence for the E gate-pier only survived (ibid.). Foundations of a structure (TS061-025027-) pre-dating the Hall of the Vicars Choral and roughly contemporary with the earlier gate were also found (ibid.). An archaeological geophysical survey of the Rock of Cashel identified two roughly parallel anomalies (L c. 56m; Wth c. 5m), interpreted as a possible trackway, running southwestward from the SW corner tower (Gimson and Bonsall 2014, 13, fig. 3).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 29 November 2017

References

Manning, C. 1990 Rock of Cashel, St Patrick's Rock: ecclesiastical in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations Bulletin 1989: summary account of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 46. Bray. Wordwell.

Gimson, H. and Bonsall, J. 2014 Investigation of the Rock of Cashel surrounding lands and lands east of Hore Abbey, St. Patrick's Rock and Horeabbey Townland, Cashel, Co. Tipperary. Unpublished archaeological geophysical survey.

Nearby in the register

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

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