Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - embanked barrow
Friarsfield, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarsfield
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48770, -8.12336
- SMR number
- TS059-112008-
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 improved pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope, overlooking an old, rushy flood plain, c. 4m to SSW. A low, circular mound (dims. 3.85m NNE-SSW; 4m WNW-ESE) defined by scarp (Wth 1.35m; H 0.25m) and slight traces of an outer fosse in places. The interior has a shallow depression within. Monument identified during fieldwork in 2009.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.