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
- 52.70024, -8.03727
- SMR number
- TN040-047----
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 prominent position on top of a hillock in upland pasture, with extensive views in all directions except upslope to NW. This site has been ploughed over but is still visible. It consists of a circular mound (diam 3.3m; H 0.08m) enclosed by a water-logged and silted fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.3m) and outer bank (Wth 2.8; ext. H 0.2m) (overall diam. 16.1m N-S: 16m E-W). The outer bank is most denuded in the NW quadrant.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.