Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Outeragh, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Outeragh
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.42198, -7.88227
- SMR number
- TS076-007----
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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 flat hill top in undulating terrain, under tillage. Enclosure levelled, however, slight rise in N, E and S defines edge of former monument (diam c. 40m). Lot of stones in vicinity of former enclosure. Hill slopes S immediately S of enclosure and also gently to N. Enclosure is indicated on both 1st (1840) and 2nd (1901-05) ed. OS 6-inch map as D-shaped enclosure defined by fosse, with straight sides to N and W. Levelled enclosure (TS076-005----) may have been visible c. 170m to NW. According to Cahill (1982 Unpublished) the enclosure was levelled after 1966. It appears as a D-shaped cropmark on an aerial photograph taken c. 1996 (ASIAP (31) 2-6).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Cahill, M. 1982 The archaeology of the Barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Unpublished M. A. thesis.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.