Moat in Oxpark, enclosure in County Tipperary

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The original tower house is to the SE of the later adjoining dwellings in a flat, landscaped garden, on the NE edge of the present town of Cloughjordan (TN016-001----). A three-storey tower house rendered in plaster and covered in ivy, with dressed limestone quoins and a slight base-batter. In the Civil Survey of (1654-6) the tower house is referred to as 'the ruins of an old castle & Bawne' owned by Charles Carroll (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 288). The tower house was formerly higher, the roof level having been lowered and altered to form a gable-fronted building, balancing the eighteenth/nineteenth-century building NW of the central seventeenth-century house (TN016-001003-). A 'moat' surrounding the house on almost three sides is shown on the OS 6-inch maps. This survives in part as a deep, partly water-filled fosse, particularly wide at the NE corner. It disappears under farmyard buildings to the N, reappears NW of the house, and finally runs into a stream on the W side. Until recently the remains of the moat could be detected around much of the tower house (FitzPatrick 1985a, vol. 2, part 4, 86). It may be contemporary with the tower house or the later seventeenth-century house (TN016-001003-). Or might just be a landscape feature associated with the late house and demesne. 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 TN016-001002

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Cloghjordan HouseCountry house · 3 yd

Explorer Tom Cloghjordan House has caught my eye in Oxpark, County Tipperary. I bet a country house with a name like that could keep me talking all afternoon; I'm already inventing a daft little scene for it, and I'll stop before it turns into history.

Furnace in OxparkFurnace · 149 ydTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.

Explorer Tom Furnace in Oxpark has caught my eye in Oxpark, County Tipperary. I bet a furnace with a name like that could keep me talking all afternoon; I'm already inventing a daft little scene for it, and I'll stop before it turns into history.

Red GardensGarden · 189 ydTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this garden.

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store/warehouse241 yd

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bank/financial institution266 yd

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steward's house278 yd

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CloghjordanHistoric town · 295 ydTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.

Explorer Tom Cloghjordan has caught my eye in Townfields, Oxpark, County Tipperary. I bet a historic town with a name like that could keep me talking all afternoon; I'm already inventing a daft little scene for it, and I'll stop before it turns into history.

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