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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Skeheenaranky, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Skeheenaranky, 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
Skeheenaranky
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.31244, -8.13643
SMR number
TS086-001001-

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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

In rolling pasture on a SE-facing slope. A D-shaped enclosure (diam. 50m NW-SE) with straight NE-SW side (L c. 80m). Monument quite overgrown with scrub around the edges and interior filled with nettles, thistles, ferns and brambles. Enclosed by stone wall (Wth.1.5m) which has largely collapsed and appears as a stoney bank (Wth. 2.0m; H. int. 0.58m; ext. 1.13m). Internal ground level drops by about 0.4m. The wall has a rubble core with stone facing. There is no evidence of an outer fosse. In the NW quadrant an external roadway now runs parallel to the bank - a ditch and bank were thrown up to delineate the roadway. The monument is known as "the Lios/Lis" by the landowner. According to Power (1908, 69) this field was called "field of the early church". No visible trace of this church (TS086-001002-). A neighbour referred to this monument as a burial ground (TS086-001003-).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 18 November 2013

References

Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.

Nearby in the register

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

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