Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Duncummin, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Duncummin
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48646, -8.36340
- SMR number
- TS057-016005-
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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 level wet pasture on the NW side of a field system (TS057-016014-) and with a ringfort (TS057-016001-) 16m to the E and ring-barrow (TS057-016006-) 24m to the SW with other ring-barrows nearby. Circular area (diam. 4m) enclosed by a low earthen scarp (Wth 0.4m; H 0.1-0.15m) with a shallow fosse (Wth at base 0.4) and traces of an external earthen bank (int. H 0.1; overall Wth 0.6). Interior is level and clear of overgrowth. A WNW-ESE orientated channel (dims. Wth at base 1.4m; overall Wth 2.2m; D 0.2m) of the nearby field system (TS 057-01616) abuts the external edge of the bank at SSW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.