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Enclosure

Kilknockan, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kilknockan, 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
Kilknockan
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.49633, -7.69881
SMR number
TS062-116001-

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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 the crest of a gentle ridge running N-S, in undulating terrain under pasture. An oval enclosure (diam. NW-SE 38.4m; E-W 35.6m) defined by quite a substantial round-topped earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m; Wth at top 1.9m; overall Wth 4.8m) and a poorly defined outer fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.4m). The level interior is very wet. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) in the NW quadrant. The bank and fosse are quite denuded in the E and W quadrant. The S quadrant of the monument appears to have been cut across by a later ringwork (TS062-116---). It is likely that the ringwork was deliberately sited to avail of the pre-existing enclosure, probably utilising it as a bailey.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 June 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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