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
- 52.47877, -8.38885
- SMR number
- TS065-073006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.