Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballynagrana (emly Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.