Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mobarnan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mobarnan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50655, -7.75186
- SMR number
- TS062-161----
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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
On the edge of a natural terrace which drops to the W. A stream flows roughly N-S c. 100m to the W, in pasture. A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 46m), defined by a scarp and a wide external fosse, identified on satellite imagery (DigitalGlobe, imagery date 2005-2012, Google Earth, imagery date 1 March 2022). A relict field boundary, running NNW-SSE along the external edge of the fosse in the NE section, is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. There is a ringfort (TS062-075----) c. 130m to the SE.
See attached satellite imagery:
TS062-161----_01 DigitalGlobe, imagery date 2005-2012
TS062-161----_02 Google Earth, imagery date 1 March 2022
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.