What is recorded here

Enclosure in Rathmore (Caher parish) is an enclosure in Rathmore (Caher parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. Aerial photographs identified a possible semicircular enclosure about 40 metres across on the slope of a north-south ridge. It adjoins an enclosure to the north and a possible enclosure to the west, and is associated with a larger enclosure nearby. Different crop conditions hid the cropmark in the adjoining field, so the source could not establish whether it was half of a circular enclosure or the west portion of an associated field system.

On slopes of a natural ridge running N-S along W edge of enclosure. There are subtle undulations in field. A ringfort (TS076-048----) 'Rathmore' is located c. 300m to S on crest of hill. This possible enclosure (diam. c. 40m) was identified as a semi-circular cropmark on an aerial photographs (ASIAP (32) 3, 7 and 15). It is conjoined with an enclosure (TS076-070001-) to the N and a possible enclosure (TS076-070003-) to the W and assoicated with a larger enclosure (TS076-069----). Field levelled c. 10 years ago and according to landowner the soil in this area is very black, quite different from the surrounding soil, concentrated where the larger enclosure was located. The cropmark could not be identified in the adjoining field due to different crop conditions, so it is not possible to establish whether the semi-circular cropmark is in fact half of a circular enclosure or the W portion of an associated field system. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 25 September 2014

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