Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballywire, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballywire
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.44007, -8.31788
- SMR number
- TS066-119----
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 gently undulating pasture c. 30m S of a WSW-ENE flowing stream. Shown as a circular hachured area (diam. c. 20m) on the 1906 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Monument levelled c. 1930 according to local information and was similar to another ringfort in the area (TS066-096----). No surface trace now visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.