What is recorded here
Situated on a NW-SE ridge of ground in a mountainous area. A wide metalled roadway (Wth 20m max.) known as 'Cromwell's Road' which has been reused in places as a modern road and elsewhere survives as a grass-covered metalled roadway. It is particularly well preserved where it follows the line of a field ditch on a NW-SE axis. Continuation of Roadway which is marked in SMR as TN026-055 and as TN031-042
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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