Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Lissobihane, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissobihane
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45360, -8.30962
- SMR number
- TS066-078001-
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 rough level pasture just above height of old water channels. Identified as a ring-ditch on an aerial photograph (OS 2435/6). A circular area (dims. 4.5m N-S; 4.5m E-W) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.13m) which is waterlogged S-W-NW. The interior is generally level and sloping down gradually around its perimeter to the fosse. The interior is the same height as the external ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.