Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ballytarsna (hackett), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballytarsna (hackett)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.58154, -7.82403
- SMR number
- TS053-024----
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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 wet poorly drained land with quarry immediately to NW and main Dublin-Cork road to SE. Poorly preserved monument consisting of a an oval-shaped flat-topped mound (H 1-1.5m; approx base diam. 7m N-S; 13m E-W diam.) defined by a scarp and which has been quarried into at W and NW and bisected by a post and wire fence at S. Mound has been partially quarried away and partially levelled by the widening of the main road to the S of the mound it is very difficult as a result to quantify the original extent of the monument. Dumping of road building material on top of mound to SW end of mound. On the first (1843) ed. OS 6-inch map small quarry immediately to SE of mound indicated where main road is now located. A sketch plan and section of the monument drawn in 1954 shows a short length of outer fosse in the SE sector (OS Field Memorandums).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.