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Barrow - unclassified

Kilcornan, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Kilcornan, 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
Kilcornan
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.49206, -8.30985
SMR number
TS058-084----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 generally flat marshy terrain, in gently undulating ground. The land is quite hummocky to the W has a lot of reeds. The field to the E has been reclaimed. A large pond barrow (TS058-046----) is located 280m to the ENE and two ring-barrows (TS058-070001- and TS058-070002-) are located 200m to the E. The barrow (TS058-023002-) and standing stone (TS058-023004-) at Longstone are visible 1.7km to the NE. A raised earthen monument (diam. 16.5m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a broad bank (Wth at base 3.7m; Wth at crest 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.05m) which is best preserved in the N-NE and almost reduced to scarp elsewhere. There is a slight, roughly circular raised area in the interior (dims. 5.8m N-S; 5.4m E-W; H 0.05m) which is off-centre towards the northern edge of the monument. A deep wide field ditch, running E-W, truncates the monument in the S quadrant. The E quadrant is similarly truncated by a field bank and ditch running N-S. A field ditch runs N-S along the external base of the bank in the W quadrant. In the N quadrant there is a wide, flat-bottomed depression (Wth 4.6m; D 0.3m) at the external base of the bank which may be an external fosse though the ground appears to be rising naturally northward, perhaps creating the appearance of a fosse.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 10 December 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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