Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballycrana, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycrana
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.42130, -8.28198
- SMR number
- TS073-004----
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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
On a gentle S-facing slope in gently undulating terrain under pasture. A moated site (dims. 59m NE-SW; 54.9m NW-SE) with round-topped bank (Wth 2.7-4.3m; int. H 0.3-0.73m; ext. H 1.74-2.06m), fosse (Wth 2.1-2.4m; D 1.1-2.86m) and ext. bank (Wth 4.5-5.9m; ext. H 0.6m). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 4.7m) at the NE end of the NW side. The outer bank is reduced in height at the N angle. There are two cattle gaps on the NW side and one on the SE side. The SE side the outer bank is reduced to scarp.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.