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Enclosure

Shortcastle (Ardfinnan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Shortcastle (Ardfinnan Par.), County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Shortcastle (Ardfinnan Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.31762, -7.89200
SMR number
TS082-066----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 NE-facing slope in undulating terrain, just of crest of NW-SE ridge. Depicted as a circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 25m N-S; c. 27m E-W) on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map with trackway running NW-SE immediately N and a field boundary running NE-SW up to the SW quadrant. On the 1904-05 ed. the enclosure is no longer depicted and the NW-SE field boundary is shown continuing uninterrupted to the lane. The landowner remembers some earthwork at the junction of this field boundary and lane which was levelled in the late 1950s. There is no visible trace of the enclosure above ground. Both fields on either side of the NE-SW field boundary are under grass, with a farm trackway running along the W side of this boundary. The lane is no longer in use but is still evident as a raise, grassed-over roadway.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 11 February 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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