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Barrow - ring-barrow

Knockatooreen, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Knockatooreen, County Tipperary South, 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
Knockatooreen
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65362, -7.54876
SMR number
TS049-009----

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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

Just below summit of hill on NE facing slope in Slieveardagh hills with panoramic views from w through N to E. Impressive well preserved ring-barrow consisting of a circular mound (base diam. 15m N-S; 14m E-W; top diam. 11.5m N-S; 9m E-W; H 0.6m; ext. diam. 41m N-S) enclosed by a wide flat-bottomed inner fosse (base Wth 7m ; top Wth 8m; ext. D 1-1.4m) and wide flat-topped external bank (base Wth 6m; top Wth 1.7m ext. H 0.4-0.2m). The interior is sunken below the external ground surface giving the interior an amphitheatre like experience with the higher enclosing external bank particularly on the upslope, on the downslope the mound is level with the external ground. Several grass-covered stones protruding for the surface of the top of the mound may be the remains of cist graves. No other features visible. Located on grassland with only a few thorn bushes growing on top of bank at W and a lone thorn bush on the mound other wise the monument is very well preserved. Agricultural land being used as pasture with cattle grazing in the adjoining fields. Enclosing bank intersected by a field boundary at NE as depicted on latest ed. OS 6-inch map.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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