Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Ballyhohan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhohan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mound
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mound
- Coordinates
- 52.31629, -7.95144
- SMR number
- TS081-052----
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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 S-facing slope in rolling pastureland. Roughly oval mound at base (c.27m N-S; c. 20.5m E-W) with more circular flat top (14m NE-SW; 14.3m E-W) and is 4.23m H above exterior (in N quadrant). Very steep-sided with substantial drop to the exterior. The sides have been badly truncated, particularly the E side which has been quarried into. At the base of the mound in the N quadrant there is a slight dip (c.4m Wth; 0.3m D) which appears to be a silted-up fosse, a wide fosse is clearly indicated on the 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map at the base of the mound on all sides except the S quadrant. The SE quadrant has a lot of slippage resulting in a very gradual slope at this point.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.