Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Nickeres, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nickeres
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46958, -8.29804
- SMR number
- TS066-031----
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
In pasture, on a low rise of an otherwise NE-facing slope; overlooking poorly drained land to E. Circular area (dims. 4m N-S; 3.9m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 0.7m; H 0.1m) and a fosse (Wth 1.6-2.75m; D 0.1-0.15m). Slight trace of levelled outer bank best defined NE-ESE and traceable NW-E-SW. Monument cut into hillslope SW-W-NW to level the interior which has a slight NE-facing slope. Identified on aerial photographs (OS 2396/7 and 2347/8) as a ring-ditch. Ditch-barrows (TS066-031001- and TS066-031002-) are c. 73m and c. 66m to SE respectively. Cork-Limerick Junction railway line is c. 100m to SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.