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
- 52.24868, -7.80725
- SMR number
- TS091-009012-
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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 fairly steep E-facing slope of Knocknagearagh hill in the Knockmealdown mountains, in upland terrain with a river valley at the base of the slope. This is part of a complex of enclosures (TS091-009001-; TS091-009007-; TS091-009008-; TS091-009009-), hut sites (TS091-009003-; TS091-009004-; TS091-009006-; TS091-009010-; TS091-009011-), a possible ring-cairn (TS091-009002-), clearance cairns (TS091-009005-) and a field system (TS091-009013-) identified by Diarmuid O'Keeffe, 1996. An irregular-shaped enclosure (diam. 63m N-S; 53m E-W) defined by a rubble wall (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.11m; ext. H 0.5m) which is more substantial upslope to the W (Wth 2.1m; int. H 1.15m; ext. H 0.15m). The interior slopes to the E. There is a well-defined entrance (Wth 1.6m) in the N quadrant with a stone wall on either side which continues for c. 9m beyond the enclosure. Roughly centrally placed within the enclosure there is a cairn (TS091-009014-) and in the NW quadrant there is a possible hut site (TS091-009015-) which is built up against the internal wall of the enclosure. There is a lot of collapsed stone in the W sector.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 03 March 2014
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.