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Enclosure

Railstown (Kilconnell Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Railstown (Kilconnell 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
Railstown (Kilconnell Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.49160, -7.79028
SMR number
TS061-128----

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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 improved, undulating pasture, on a low rise. Slight trace of an oval area (dims. c. 33m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by remains of levelled scarp (Wth 5m; H 0.5m) N-SE, reduced to a lower scarp (Wth 3m; H 0.15m) SW-N. Wooden fence (long axis c. E-W) traverses S-sector. Visible as a semi-circular cropmark c. W-ESE on aerial photograph (ASIAP 03/08/1998, (36) 13-15). A sketch plan and sections drawn in 1954 show a roughly circular area defined by scarp NW-N-SE and slight bank from SE-W-NW; fosse and outer bank (OS Field Memorandums). It is similarly depicted on the 1952-54 ed. OS 6-inch map (map overall diam. c. 82m N-S; c. 70m E-W). Cahill (1982,DR373) states monument levelled and according to local information, monument levelled over 30 years ago.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Cahill, M. 1982 The archaeology of the Barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Unpublished M. A. thesis.

Nearby in the register

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

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