What is recorded here

Moated site in Aughnagomaun, Ballytarsna (Hackett) is a moated site in Aughnagomaun, Ballytarsna (Hackett), County Tipperary, Ireland. The 2011 inventory recorded the levelled site as a barely visible square 36 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west, marked by a 0.3-metre rise and a shallow fosse 1 metre wide at the base, 3 metres wide at the top and 0.4 metres deep outside. The inventory found the fosse best visible at north and south and levelled into the field boundary at east and west. A 1950s plan showed an enclosing bank on the north and east, a southern scarp and the fosse on every side except west.

In grassland on an E-facing slope of low rising ground with ringfort (TS053-008----) 150m to S and tower house (TS053-006----) 400m to NNE and church (TS053-009----) 430m to E. Levelled moated site which is barely visible as a square-shaped area (int. dims. 36m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by a low rise of ground (H 0.3m) and poorly preserved shallow fosse (base Wth 1m; top Wth 3m; ext. D 0.4m) which is intersected at W by a field boundary running on a N-S axis. No other features visible. Fosse best visible at N and S but not visible on E and W where it has been levelled by the field boundary. A sketch plan and profile drawn in the 1950s shows a roughly square area, with enclosing bank along the N and E side, scarp along the S side and a field boundary forming the W side, a field boundary also ran roughly E-W in the fosse along the S side (OS Field Memorandums). In the sketch plan the fosse is depicted on all sides, except the W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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