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Enclosure

Knockkelly, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of 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
52.48684, -7.64893
SMR number
TS062-133----

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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 pasture, on a NNW-facing slope, near top of Bennett's Hill with excellent views from WNW-E-ESE. The remains of an oval area (dims. 45m N-S; 36m E-W) are defined by a levelled bank reduced to scarp (Wth 5.5m; H 0.25m) in the S quadrant. The monument is truncated by a field boundary running roughly E-W across the SSW sector. The levelled remains of the S sector (dims. 24m E-W; 15m N-S) are defined by a fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.15m) in the adjacent field to the S. There is a distinct depression at the SE edge, where a spring is depicted on the 2nd 1903-04 ed. OS 6-inch map. There are undulations in the field to the S of the enclosure but these do not form any decernible pattern. The enclosure had been levelled when visited by Cahill (1982).

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 Unpublished M. A. thesis.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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