Earthwork in Loughane Upper, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

Situated on a high E-W ridge, sloping slightly to the SE, in pastureland. Depicted as an oval enclosure on the 1st ed. (1843) OS 6-inch map with a field boundary transecting the W portion. Not indicated on the 1904 ed. suggesting it was levelled in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Not visible at ground level. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN027-142

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