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Barrow - ring-barrow

Lismortagh, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Lismortagh, 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
Lismortagh
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.53117, -7.68454
SMR number
TS062-010001-

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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 improved, yet rough pasture, on a SE-facing slope with excellent views of Slievenamon to S. Earthworks (TS062-010002-) to E and W and a henge (TS062-010003-) abuts c. 3.5m to the SE. A multivallate ring-barrow consisting of a roughly circular area (diam. 50m) defined by scant remains of a bank (overall Wth 6.4m; Wth at top 1.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m) which is best preserved from SE-S-SW and is reduced intermittently to scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.45m) SW-SE; a well-preserved fosse (overall Wth 5.4m; basal Wth 3.0m; D 0.4m) with causewayed (Wth 4.5m) at ESE; intermittent remains of bank (overall Wth 4.1m; Wth at top 1.6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) from NNW-E-SSW which is levelled from SSW-W-NNW; and in the SE-S-SSW sector there is also another fosse (overall Wth 3.65m; basal Wth 1.25m; D 0.2m); bank (overall Wth 3.7m; Wth at top 1.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m); fosse (overall Wth 3.7m; basal Wth 1.3m; D 0.2m); bank (overall Wth 4.4m; Wth at top 1.9m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.35m) and the possible remains of an outermost fosse. The interior slopes to the SE and together with parts of the exterior appears to have been modified by drainage activities. The innermost bank has been flattened and has spread into the interior in the W sector. A raised area (dims. 36m ESE-WNW; 14m NNE-SSW) within the N sector, which is defined by scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.35m) to S, is possibly a result of drainage activity. A leat (Wth c. 4m; long axis NNW-SSE) intersects the inner fosse at SW and NW.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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