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Barrow - ring-barrow

Cooga, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Cooga, 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
Cooga
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.70258, -8.03579
SMR number
TN040-040001-

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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 in flat terrain on a valley floor in poorly drained land, under pasture. A roughly circular ring-barrow (diam. 19.1m N-S; 17.8m E-W) consisting of a circular mound (diam 10.7m; 0.42m H) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2-2.5m; D 0.37m) and outer bank (Wth 1.5m at crest, 3.7m at base; ext. H 0.31m). The mound has a central depression probably due to cattle erosion. A standing stone (TN040-040002) lies prostrate in the fosse at W and the outer bank is not visible at this point. Some stone protrudes from the central mound. According to local tradition this is the burial site of the 'Great Dane' and was part of the 'Jewel of Dane' estate. The fosse and central depression become waterlogged in the winter.

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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