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Enclosure

Ballyglass Upper (Clonpet Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballyglass Upper (Clonpet Par.), 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
Ballyglass Upper (Clonpet Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.44144, -8.16300
SMR number
TS067-070----

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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 pasture on a gentle N-facing slope. Circular enclosure (dims. c. 23m N-S; c. 22m E-W) defined by remnants of inner earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.6m; ext. H c. 0.5m) NE-E-S-SW. Breach (Wth 3.8m) at E and S. Intervening fosse (Wth 4.5m; basal Wth 1.75; Dth 0.5m). Outer bank (Wth c. 2.78m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 0.75m) NE-E-S-NW. Traces of outer fosse (Wth 3.58m; basal Wth1.8m; D 0.1m) NE-E-S-SW. Interior slopes downwards to N, mature trees within, on banks and in fosses. Enclosure truncated in N-sector due to modern dwelling and garden, c. 20 years old. Enclosed to E and S by field boundary flanked by public road. Gortavoher Wood on rising ground to S.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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