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Enclosure - large enclosure

MacKanagh Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, MacKanagh Lower, 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
MacKanagh Lower
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.41302, -8.17658
SMR number
TS074-025----

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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 broad flat ridge between Slievenamuck Mountain to the N and the Galtee Mountains to the S, in pasture. The Aherlow River flows W-E c. 400m to the N and the Clydagh River flows S-N c. 600m to the W. Identified on OS ortho image. Large roughly D-shaped enclosure (diam. 81m N-S; 61m E-W) defined by an inner bank (int. H 0.16m; ext. H 0.3-0.72m; Wth at top 3m; overall Wth 7.5m) largely reduced to scarp, a wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.5-5.5m) and outer bank (int. H 0.4-0.57m; ext. H 0.22-0.38; Wth at top 3m; overall Wth 7.5m). The E and S sides are relatively straight, though both curve at the angles. Between the NE angle and the SW angle there is a continuous curve on the W side. A field boundary ran N-S through the eastern portion of the enclosure. The boundary, depicted on the 1st (1840) 6-inch OS map, has been removed by the 1904 OS revision, though the ditch (Wth 4.5m; D 0.35m) is still visible. The interior is slightly undulating.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 28 April 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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