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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
52.47877, -8.38885
SMR number
TS065-073006-

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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

On a raised hummock within generally flat wet terrain, in a reclaimed field under pasture. Within a linear barrow cemetery (L c. 130m) which runs NE-SW. Monument identified during fieldwork. This ring-barrow consists of a well-defined dome-shaped mound enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.7-2.15m; D 0.1-0.15m) and outer bank (Wth at base 2.1-2.7m; Wth at crest 1.2-1.4m; H above int. 0.15-0.17m; H above ext. 0.04-0.09m). The outer bank has been truncated in the S quadrant by a field boundary which runs E-W. Other ring-barrows in the cemetery include TS065-073001-; TS065-073002- and TS065-073003- - which lie 58m, 94m and 74m to the SW respectively, TS065-073004 which lies 45m to the W, TS065-073005- which lies 43m to the N and TS065-073007- which lies 29m to the NE.

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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