Enclosure in Longorchard, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside. A poorly preserved site consisting of a circular area (diam. 20m N-S) enclosed by a low poorly preserved earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) which is destroyed at S by a modern drain and reduced to a scarp at E. No outer fosse or entrance feature visible (Stout 1984, 74). Depicted on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map as an irregular grove of trees associated with a nineteenth-century plantation. 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 TN030-035

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