Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Glengoole South, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glengoole South
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61032, -7.63108
- SMR number
- TS048-051----
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
On top of a low hillock on reclaimed grassland in Slieveardagh hills with good views from E through S to W with higher ground to N. Nearby megalithic tomb (TS048-041----) to 175m to N. Well-preserved ringbarrow (overall diameter 19m E-W) consisting of a low circular mound (top diam 8.5m E-W; base diam. 10m E-W; H 0.3m) enclosed by an inner fosse (base Wth 1m; top Wth 2.5m) and external bank (base Wth 2m; top Wth 1m; ext. H 0.2-0.6m). Stone wall field bank bisects the mound on an E-W axis. Originally the ring-barrow was situated on low ridge in wet marshy terrain in upland region. The mound is approximately level with the external ground surface.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.