Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballinglanna, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinglanna
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45482, -8.32410
- SMR number
- TS066-072001-
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 improved, wet pasture, on a natural curvilinear ridge, overlooking a low-lying level area (possible flood plain) to N. A ditch barrow (TS066-072----) is located c. 18m to the SE. A sub-circular area (dims. 4.75m N-S; 3.5m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.15m) which is broader and less defined in the NE quadrant and is backfilled at SW. The interior is grass covered with a N-facing slope. A dry drainage channel running NW-SE lies immediately SW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.