Quarry in Shrough, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

In rough, ungrazed pasture in area of disused quarry. Depicted on the first 1840 edition OS 6-inch map as an irregular enclosure with a linear field boundary extending from the NW and SE-sides. On the 2nd 1904 ed. a curving bank is depicted (chord c. 40m) immediately E of a quarry face, which appears to be upcast from the quarry. According to local information, this has always been in use as a quarry. A possible ringfort (TS066-135----) lies c. 100m to the ENE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS066-134

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Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Hywel Williams, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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