Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Drumleagh, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumleagh
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38463, -8.18747
- SMR number
- TS073-031----
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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 lower E slope of Knocknanuss mountain in the Galty mountain range. Located c. 40-50m W of a steep river gully. A circular stone enclosure (int. diam. 12.8m N-S; 13.2m E-W; overall diam. 18.5m N-S; 17.5m E-W) defined by a large collapsed rubble stone wall (T 1.7m; H 0.35-0.9m). The W quadrant was built into the mountain slope. There is a possible entrance in the ESE defined by two sandstone boulders with flat faces to the S.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.