Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballyvistea, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvistea
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47859, -8.39019
- SMR number
- TS065-073002-
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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 flat terrain in reclaimed field under pasture. Within a linear barrow cemetery which runs NE-SW (L c. 130m). Monument identified on Google Earth aerial imagery (Imagery Date: 2/20/2009). This ring-barrow (overall diam. 10.9m N-S; 11.2m E-W) is conjoined with another ring-barrow (TS065-073001-) to the W, both sharing their outer bank at the junction. Other ring-barrows in the cemetery include TS065-073003-; TS065-073004- and TS065-073005- which lie 15m, 50m and 111m to the NE respectively and TS065-073006- and TS065-073007- which lie 94m and 112m to the ENE respectively. It consists of a circular area (dims 4.8m N-S; 5.3m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth 1.2-1.3m; D 0.12-0.16m) with evidence of a much denuded outer bank in the SE-S sector and SW-W-NW (int. H 0.12-0.2m; ext. H 0.05m; Wth at base 1.2m; Wth at crest 0.6m).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.