Enclosure in Skeheenaranky, County Tipperary

What is recorded here

On gentle S-facing slope with stream running E-W c. 30m to S, in pastureland. Enclosure not marked on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. Small roughly square area (diam. 13.6m N-S; 15.5m E-W) enclosed by low, flattened earth and stone bank (Wth 1.7m crest, 2.2m base; int. H 0.23m; ext. H 0.63m) with rounded corners. No visible external fosse. There is a lot of stone strewn around the interior, monument used for field clearance debris. Small trees are growing on the bank and in interior in the SE quadrant.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS086-008

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What survives: Recorded monument

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Photo credits

Martin Richard Phelan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Ivar Leidus, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Mike Murphy ( talk · contribs ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
A copy of this photograph is owned by National Library of Ireland and can be viewed here [1], Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
john salter, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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