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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballyvistea, County Tipperary South, Ireland

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Townland
Ballyvistea
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47865, -8.38993
SMR number
TS065-073003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a 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. 10.1m N-S; 11.7m E-W) consists of a low flat circular area (diam. 5.1m N-S; 5.6m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth 1-1.15m; D 0.08m) with traces of an outer bank in the N, E and W quadrants (Wth 1.1-1.5m; int. H 0.11-0.15m; ext. H 0.08-0.1m). Other ring-barrows in the cemetery include TS065-073001- and TS065-073002- which lie 28m and 15m to the SW respectively and TS065-073004- and TS065-073005- which lie 26m and 92m to the NE respectively and TS065-073006- and TS065-073007- which lie 74m and 95m to the ENE respectively.

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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