Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Farranrory Upper, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranrory Upper
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.61882, -7.52157
- SMR number
- TS049-031----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On top of high poorly drained grassland with good views in all directions, nearby burial mound (TS049-32----) 124m to E and burials (TS049-030----) 138m to W. Well-preserved ring-barrow consisting of a flat-topped mound (diam. 3m E-W; H 0.2m; overall diam. 11.5m N-S; 10m E-W) enclosed by an inner fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.2m) and outer bank (top Wth 1.6m; base Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m) which intersected at S on an E-W axis. Mound is overgrown with gorse bushes.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - 19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.