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What is recorded here

Murgasty rises as a broad oval motte above the gravel ridges of Tipperary Hills, its steep scarps marking a made mound rather than a natural hill. People may have built it to be seen, defended or remembered, while later visitors walked its ledge and sat on benches at the edge. The hill still holds that shape, waiting for imagination to finish what forgotten hands began.

In recreational parkland of gravel ridges known as Tipperary Hills. On top of a substantial gravel hill. Motte is an oval area (dims. 42m WSW-ENE; c. 28m NNW-SSE) defined by steep-sided scarp (Wth 9m; H 6.5m) marginally lower (H 5.5m) yet steeper (Wth 6m) to WSW. Tarmac trackway on roughly level ledge around monument. Ledge (Wth 12m) at WSW, reducing (Wth 5.5m) at ENE side and appears to mark interface between natural mound and monument. Motte is grass covered and generally flat topped with remains of benches along the top edge of each side. The motte is described in the OS Letters (1840s) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.3, 37) and a description, including a plan and section, was published in 1913 (Flynn 1913, 5-7). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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