Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Ballyrickard North, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyrickard North
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96013, -8.12678
- SMR number
- TN010-062----
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
Situated in a nineteenth-century grove of trees alongside the driveway into Congor House. A steep-sided conical mound (H 3.4m; base diam. 11.6m NE-SW) of earth and stone with no evidence of an enclosing fosse. A possible burial mound which may have been reused as a landscape feature.
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 - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.