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Barrow - ditch barrow

Ballysheehan (Ballysheehan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Ballysheehan (Ballysheehan Par.), 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
Ballysheehan (Ballysheehan Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.56217, -7.86387
SMR number
TS053-042008-

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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

In flat grassland. In 1999, during the redevelopment of the stud farm, these earthworks, which possibly represents the remains of a deserted medieval village, were partially buried in topsoil to make the land safe for livestock (Purcell and Gowen 2000, 283). A digital terrain model of the earthworks, prior to this, revealed several features including three circular mounds (diam. 5-6m) which appear as 'shallow ring ditches' and may be barrows or 'residual features from circular feeding troughs' (O'Donovan and Duffy 2002, 39-40). Earthworks to the S which appear on aerial photographs (CUCAP 1967, ATA 64; CUCAP 1971, BGO 11) appear to be the remains of a medieval deserted settlement (TS053-042003-).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Purcell, A. and Gowen, M. 2000 Ballysheehan Stud, Ballysheehan: Possible deserted medieval village. I.Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 283. Wordwell. Dublin.

O'Donovan, E. and Duffy, S. 2002 A deserted medieval village at Ballysheehan, Co. Tipperary. Tipperary Historical Journal, 33-43.

Nearby in the register

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

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