Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lowesgreen, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lowesgreen
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.47546, -7.81658
- SMR number
- TS069-020----
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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 pasture, on an S-facing slope. Triangular area (dims. 58m NNW-SSE; 50m E-W) with three straight sides, at NE (L 44m), SE (L 44m) and W (L 58m) and rounded corners at N, E & S. Remains of enclosing bank (Wth 8.7m; int H 0.3m; ext H 1.88m) SSW-W-N, reduced to scarp (Wth 4m-4.5m; H 1.6-1.8m) along NE and SE sides. External fosse (Wth 7.75m; D 1.05m) along SE and SW sides, infilled at S-corner. Interior tilts downslope to S. Shared fosse (Wth 6.75m; D 0.8m) between enclosure (TS069-020----) and previously unrecorded enclosure (TS069-020001-) exists along N-corner and NE-side, however is infilled slightly NW-N. Traces of an external bank exist in places along SE-side. Enclosure (TS069-021----) c. 250m to NE and enclosures (TS069-075---- and TS069-075001-) c. 120m to SSE.
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.