Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Mooresfort, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooresfort
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45379, -8.29972
- SMR number
- TS066-083001-
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 pasture, on a plateau of a N-facing slope. Circular area (dims. 4m N-S; 4m E-W) defined by distinctive fosse (Wth 2.45m; D 0.18m) with traces of possible outer bank (Wth 4.05m; int. H 0.18m; ext. H 0.05m) best preserved NW-NNE and E-WSW. Interior is slightly dome shaped sloping down gently all around to fosse. Perimeter of interior is c. 0.08m below exterior ground level, but crown in centre of dome shaped interior is same height as exterior ground level. visible on aerial photograph (ref. OS 2437/6) as a roughly circular enclosure.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.