Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Lismacrory, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismacrory
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03787, -8.02648
- SMR number
- TN008-022----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
National Monument No. 348. Situated at the base of a N-facing slope of a low hill with nearby mound (TN008-021----) to the N and ringfort (TN008-020----) to the SW. A round-topped mound (H 2.5-3m; base diam. 9m N-S) of earth and stone construction with evidence of external stone facing along the base of the mound at E. The mound has been partially eroded and scarped at W. Could be same site as TN008-062--- which is described in the NMI topographical files.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.