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Barrow - ring-barrow

Toorfiba, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Toorfiba, County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Toorfiba
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.71346, -8.06731
SMR number
TN039-001002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gradual, subtle break in a NW-facing slope in hilly terrain, under pasture. The site is in the SE corner of a field with the field ditch skirting the monument at SE and SW. A standing stone (TN039-001001) is situated 3.6m to the NE. A roughly circular site (diam. 12.1m N-S; 12.9m E-W) consisting of a central mound (Wth 3.8-5.1m; H 0.53m), a deep, U-shaped fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.5m) and an outer bank (Wth 1.5m-2.1m; ext. H 0.65m). There is evidence of a stone cist (TN039-001003) in the centre of the mound with two long slabs exposed at right angles (L 1m x Wth 0.3m and L 0.67m x 0.16m). No visible entrance 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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