Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathkenny, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkenny
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49783, -7.64412
- SMR number
- TS062-134004-
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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 W-facing slope. It is conjoined with an enclosure (TS062-134001-) to N. An enclosure (TS062-134002-) lies c. 100m to the NW. An oval area (dims. 20m E-W; 16m N-S) defined by the remains of a levelled bank, reduced to scarp (Wth 5.4m; H 0.6m) and a fosse (overall Wth 12.9m; basal Wth 2m; D 0.6m) which is truncated by a field boundary running N-S across the E sector. The fosse is shared with the conjoined enclosure from NW-N-NE. The interior slopes to the W.
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.