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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballynagrana (Emly Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballynagrana (Emly Par.), 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
Ballynagrana (Emly Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.44730, -8.31261
SMR number
TS066-094----

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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 level improved pasture. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but archaeological excavation here in 1935 revealed a circular ring-barrow (diam. c. 5m) defined by a fosse and outer bank (Ó Ríordáin 1936, 183-4). No burials were found. The excavation 'revealed three peculiar pockets in the original ground-surface filled with dark humified soil. Each about 2 feet [0.6m] in length and consisted of a circular part, 6-inches in diameter, and a long narrow portion about 3-inches [0.07m] in width, this latter part being filled with material somewhat lighter in colour because less humified. The maximum depth of these pockets was only 2½-inches [0.06m]. Their purpose is not clear; one might suggest their having contained deposits of cremated remains that had been completely dissolved by soil-acids, but this is only surmise (ibid. 184). No surface trace now visible at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 14 October 2015

References

Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1936 Excavations at Lissard, Co. Limerick and other sites in the locality. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66, 173-85.

Nearby in the register

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

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