What is recorded here

Enclosure in Ballytarsna (Hackett) is an enclosure in Ballytarsna (Hackett), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies flat pasture with good views in all directions, though no surface remains are visible there now. Maps from 1840 and the 1950s show a roughly circular tree-lined enclosure, with the western half drawn as a raised platform about 45 metres from north to south and an external ditch curving from southeast through south to southwest. A 1982 description calls it a poorly preserved enclosure partially destroyed, consisting of one bank and an outer ditch.

In grassland in flat pasture with good views in all directions. No surface remains visible. Described in 1982 as poorly preserved enclosure which was partially destroyed consisting of one bank and outer ditch (Cahill 1982, vol. 2). Indicated as a roughly circular tree-lined enclosure on first edition OS 6-inch map (1840) and on the 2nd (1953-4) ed. The W half of the monument is depicted as a raised platform (map dims. c. 45m N-S) with an external fosse running from SE-S-SW. A sketch plan and section of the enclosure was drawn in 1953 (OS Field Memorandums). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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