Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Togher, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Togher
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.82715, -7.69700
- SMR number
- TN030-004001-
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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 on top of a low hillock in undulating countryside with a poorly drained bog immediately to the N. A well-preserved impressive ring-barrow consisting of a naturally raised area (diam. 29m E-W) defined by a scarp and enclosed by a wide well-preserved fosse (Wth 3-6m; ext. D 1m) and outer bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.5-0.9m) with possible causewayed entrance (Wth 5m) at SE. The area to the NW of the ring-barrow represents a natural hillock the base of which has been scarped, with a modern trackway intersecting the hillock to the W of the barrow (Stout 1984, 83).
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.