Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch 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
- 52.46926, -8.29721
- SMR number
- TS066-031002-
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 slight NE-facing slope. Circular area (dims. 4m N-S; 4.2m E-W) defined by fosse (Wth 1.65-1.8m; D 0.05-0.12m) which is best preserved on W-side where it is cut into the hillslope. Fosse is truncated NNE-ENE by linear drain (long axis ESE-WNW). Interior has gentle NE-facing slope. Identified on aerial photographs (OS 2396/7 and 2347/8) as a ring-ditch. Ditch-barrow (TS066-031001-) is c. 7m to ENE and ring-barrow (TS066-031----) is c. 66m to NW. Cork-Limerick Junction railway line is c. 45m to SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-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.