Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Roosca (Burke), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roosca (Burke)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.32911, -7.92791
- SMR number
- TS081-040----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the flat summit of a spur of outcrop, under pasture. There is a sharp drop from SE-S-SW and gentle drop to NW. Road runs roughly E-W along the NE quadrant. Roosca 'castle' (TS081-041----) is visible c. 150m to the SE. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and similarly depicted as a circular raised area on the 2nd (1906) ed. (diam. c. 27m N-S; c. 32m E-W). There is no visble trace of the monument above ground.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 08 January 2014
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.