Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Kilcash, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcash
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.40184, -7.50718
- SMR number
- TS078-028001-
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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 lower S-facing slope of Slievenamon mountain in Kilcash Wood. Enclosure (diam. 23.8m N-S; 22.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6.7m; H above int. 1.57m; H above fosse (1.74m) and external fosse (Wth 1.3-2m; D 0.66-1.66m). In the S quadrant the inner bank is reduced to scarp (H 1.37m) and there is an outer bank (Wth 7.5m; ext. H 1.7m) with entrance feature (Wth 1.3m). The interior is densely planted with conifer trees and deciduous trees around the edge. There are the remains of a rectangular house (TS078-028----) in the interior.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.