Enclosure in Scraggeen, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

Situated on the NE face of a N-S ridge in an upland area. A circular area (diam. N-S 25m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.7m) with no entrance feature visible. Located in centre of nineteenth-century forest plantation and possibly contemporary with the plantation. A possible landscape feature. 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 TN037-031

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