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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballykisteen, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballykisteen, 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
Ballykisteen
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.49646, -8.21195
SMR number
TS058-090----

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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

A circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) with an internal fosse, visible on satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery date 16 December 2016 and 20 January 2020), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is another ring-barrow (TS058-091----) c. 5m to the SSW.

See attached:
TS058-090----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 16 December 2016)
TS058-090----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 20 January 2020)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 10 January 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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