Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Cooga, County Tipperary North, Ireland
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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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 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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.