What is recorded here
Located on land sloping slightly to the SE in very gently undulating pastureland. A circular area (diam. 31.4m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1m) and a wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.6m; D 0.4m) visible from S through W to NW. According to the Ikerrin Survey material had been bulldozed into the fosse and up against the bank at E (Stout 1984, 72).
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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