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Concentric enclosure

Knockkelly, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Concentric enclosure, Knockkelly, 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
Knockkelly
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.50090, -7.65717
SMR number
TS062-100----

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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 slight rise on gradual W-facing slope in undulating pasture. Monument levelled and not visible at ground level. Field boundary runs roughly N-S along E quadrant, this boundary curves slightly to accommodate the curving monument. Monument (diam. 35m) upstanding when visited in 1982 and had a bank and outer fosse, it was classified as a ringfort (Cahill 1982). However, an aerial photograph taken in 1996 (ASIAP (39) 7-11) shows the monument (overall diam. c. 65m) as a cropmark, consisting of a circular area enclosed by a fosse, with an outer berm (Wth c. 11m) and outer fosse. The field boudary described above truncates the berm and outer fosse from NNE-SE.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 21 November 2016

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 Unpublished M. A. thesis.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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