Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Clonwalsh, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonwalsh
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.38908, -7.63904
- SMR number
- TS077-071----
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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 ground sloping very gently to N in undulating terrain. Currently in centre of tillage field, fields depicted on the 1904 ed. OS 6-inch map to N and S have been removed. River flowing E-W c. 120m N of monument. Low motte which consists of a flat-topped, roughly circular mound (diam. at top 22m N-S; 20m E-W; diam. at base 33m N-S; 34m E-W), defined by steep scarp (H 2.12-2.42m S and W quad. respectively). Top is relatively clean, though nettle covered. Scrub growing around edge. Small area of disturbance into side of mound in the SW quadrant.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.