Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Rathcoun, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoun
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49834, -7.92190
- SMR number
- TS060-107007-
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 exterior of enclosure (TS060-107005-). Circular area (dims. 2.75m N-S; 2.5m E-W) defined by shallow fosse (Wth 1.25m; D 0.13m). Interior is a low profile dome shape. Ditch-barrows (TS060-107008- and TS060-107009-) are 5.5m and 20m to E respectively and a small possible mound barrow (TS060-107010-) is 14m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 July 2014
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.