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Earthwork

Ballywire, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ballywire, 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
Ballywire
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.42262, -8.30501
SMR number
TS073-002----

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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 a SW-facing slope, c. 100m NE of a ringfort (TS073-003----), below the crest of slope in a depression, in undulating terrain under lush meadow. A standing stone c. 54m to the SSE appears to be a scratching post. The monument is outlined on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular area between three field boundaries. A NW-SE boundary formed the W side of the earthwork, a NE-SW boundary ran through the SE quadrant and a S boundary ran up to the S quadrant. It is indicated on the 2nd (1904) ed. OS 6-inch map as a pond. Between the 1st and the 2nd ed. OS 6-inch map the NW-SE field boundaries had been removed and a new boundary running along E side had been constructed. This field boundary has since been removed. According to local information there is only one 'fort', that is the ringfort mentioned above, in this field. The possible earthwork is not visible at ground level. The depression at the location would suggest that what is indicated on the map could have been a pond or that the monument has been quarried out.

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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