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Enclosure

Fihertagh, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Fihertagh, 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
Fihertagh
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.43654, -8.04899
SMR number
TS067-135----

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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

On relatively flat ground on a gentle S-facing slope, in undulating terrain under pasture. The view is dominated by the Galtee Mountains from S-SW and by a range of hills from W-NW, which form the N side of the Glen of Aherlow. The view is fair-good to the E though impeded by trees, good to the SW between the mountains and hills and to the NW, but poor to the N. A ringfort (TS067-079----) is located c. 90m to the ENE. On the 1st (1840-41) ed. OS 6-inch map the outline of the monument from W-N-ESE is indicated as the NW portion of an enclosed orchard. A building, part of a farmyard, is indicated running NE-SW on the NW edge of the enclosure/orchard, with another building running NW-SE from its NW corner. By the 2nd (1954) revision neither the farmyard nor the orchard are indicated.
A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 51m NW-SE; c. 56m NE-SW) identified on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 19 July 2021). Defined by a broad bank (overall Wth 7m; Wth at top 4m; int. H 0.37m; ext. H 0.84m) and an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.28m). The bank survives in the NE quadrant but elsewhere it is largely reduced to scarp (H 0.87m). The edge of the monument is disturbed in the NW-N sector where the farm buildings where previously located. A wooden fence runs NW-SE along the E edge of the monument. The interior is fairly level.

See attached satellite imagery and photographs:
TS067-135----_01 Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 19 July 2021)
TS067-135----_02 W edge of enclosure from the SW
TS067-135----_03 Overview from the NW
TS067-135----_04 Overview from the NE
TS067-135----_05 Interior from the NE
TS067-135----_06 Bank and fosse exterior in the NE sector
TS067-135----_07 Bank in the NE sector from the NW

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 4 August 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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