Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Middlequarter (newcastle Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Middlequarter (newcastle Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24765, -7.80514
- SMR number
- TS091-009009-
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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 E-facing slope of Knocknagearagh in the Knockmealdown mountains, in upland terrain overlooking a river valley. This is part of a complex of enclosures (TS091-009001-; TS091-009007-; TS091-009008-; TS091-009012-), hut sites (TS091-009003-; TS091-009004-; TS091-009006-; TS091-009010-; TS091-009011-; TS091-009015-), a possible ring-cairn (TS091-009002-), clearance cairns (TS091-009005-) and a field system (TS091-009013-) identified by Diarmuid O'Keeffe, 1996. A D-shaped enclosure (diam. 22m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by a sandstone rubble wall (Wth 2.1-2.3m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.5m). There is no obvious entrance.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 03 March 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.