Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyveelish North, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyveelish North
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39471, -7.73581
- SMR number
- TS077-046005-
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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 gradual NE-facing slope of hill in undulating pasture. An enclosure lies adjacent to the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline corridor, where a number of monuments were excavated in 1981-2 (Doody 1987, 9-21, 74-87), including a moated site c. 20m to the S (TS077-046001-) and a Bronze Age enclosure (TS077-046002-) and a Bronze Age ditch barrow with cist (TS077-046004-/TS077-046003-) c. 110m and c. 200m to the SW respectively. The enclosure is not indicated on the OS 6-inch maps but is depicted on the excavation plan of earthworks at Ballyveelish (Doody 1987, fig. 1.2). A circular enclosure (diam. 25.6m N-S; 26.2m E-W) defined by a low, broad, flattened bank (Wth 3.6m crest, 11.7m base; 0.3 int. H; 1m ext. H), which is not evident in the S quadrant. The bank is very broad in relation to interior which suggests that the enclosure may have been partially levelled or, if this is original, it may be an embanked barrow.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Doody, M.G. 1987 Ballyveelish, Co. Tipperary. In R.M. Cleary et al. (eds), Excavations on the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (1981-2), 9-21. University College, Cork.
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.