Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Ballincurry (crohane Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincurry (crohane Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.58555, -7.61940
- SMR number
- TS054-025----
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
In grassland, on a S-facing slope of rising ground in upland region with good views in all directions except to N. Nearby enclosure (TS054-026----) 250m to the E. Low poorly defined mound (approx. diam. 21m N-S; 13m E-W; H 0.3m) with small quarry hole (diam. 5m; D 0.8m) in centre of mound. Mound best preserved on W side. Not indicated on first (1840) ed.OS 6-inch map may have something to do with nearby coal mining or may have been a ring-barrow which has been quarried into. Field has been reclaimed with new grass sown and monument may have been degraded during this reclamation work.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.