Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballydrehid, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydrehid
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.39597, -7.94115
- SMR number
- TS075-034----
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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 S-facing slope in upland terrain, in rough pasture. There is scrub around the edge of the enclosure. Slightly irregular-shaped large enclosure (diam. 91.5m N-S; 95m E-W) enclosed by bank (Wth 1.6m crest, 2.6m base; int. H 0.76m; ext. H 1m) and shallow outer fosse (Wth 1.5-1.8m; D 0.22m). Downslope in the S quadrant the bank is reduced to scarp (H 1.09m over 5.4m). The interior slopes S with the incline. There is a slight break in slope c. 10m immediately S of the S bank of the enclosure. A large quarry extends up to the W bank of the monument. The W bank is particularly large and has probably been augmented by spoil from the quarry. Two wrecked cars lie abandoned in the NE quadrant. There is an old ring-feeder in the SE quadrant. The bank defining the N and E sides is a typical field bank, that in the E sector has an internal ditch.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 07 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.