Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Crampscastle, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crampscastle
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.46800, -7.65823
- SMR number
- TS070-046----
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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 a gentle N-facing slope. Slight visible surface trace of semi-circular area (dims. 24m WNW-ESE; 18m ENE-WSW) defined by low profile rise in field ESE-WNW. Truncated by field boundary (long-axis WSW-ENE) to N. Latter has angle to NNE, which may represent a straightened bank. Enclosure levelled by 1982 (Cahill). Ringfort (TS070-047----) located 200m to SSW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Cahill, M. 1982 The archaeology of the Barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Unpublished M. A. thesis.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.