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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballyvistea, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballyvistea, 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
Ballyvistea
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47851, -8.39028
SMR number
TS065-073001-

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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 flat terrain in reclaimed field under pasture. Within a linear barrow cemetery (L c. 130m) which runs NE-SW. Monument identified on Google Earth aerial imagery (Imagery Date: 2/20/2009). This ring-barrow (overall diam. 13.5m N-S; 11m E-W) is conjoined with another ring-barrow (TS065-073002-) to the E, both sharing their outer bank at the junction. Other ring-barrows in the cemetery include TS065-073003-; TS065-073004- and TS065-073005- which lie 28m, 58m and 121m to the NE respectively and TS065-073006- and TS065-073007- which lie 58m and 121m to the ENE respectively. It consists of a circular area (dims 7.4m N-S; 7.1m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth 1.2-1.5m; D 0.15-0.2m) with evidence of an outer bank at the NW-N (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.15m; Wth at base 1.9m; Wth at crest 0.9m) and at the E (Wth 1.2m).

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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