Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathkenny, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkenny
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.49867, -7.64504
- SMR number
- TS062-134002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In improved pasture, on a WSW-facing slope. A small rectangular field enclosed by field fences is located immediately to E and a rectangular grove of trees to NE. An enclosure (TS062-034001-) lies c. 50m to SE. A sub-oval area (dims. 32m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by the remains of levelled scarp (Wth 8m; H 0.75m) from SW-W-NE. The monument is truncated by a field fence running N-S through the E quadrant and by a field boundary running E-W through the S quadrant. The interior slopes to WSW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.