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Barrow - ditch barrow

Ballinglanna, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Ballinglanna, 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
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-

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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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