Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch 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
- 52.44979, -8.29852
- SMR number
- TS066-097----
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 level area of low rise with land sloping down to E and W. Remains of levelled sub-circular area (dims. 10m NNW-SSE; 10m ENE-WSW) defined by feint trace of fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.05m) WSW-NE. Fosse levelled NE-ENE. Monument truncated by scar of former field boundary (long-axis WSW-ENE). No visible remains of SSE-sector. Identified as a ring-ditch on aerial photograph (OS 2436/7 mono). Conjoined ditch barrow (TS066-097001-) is abutting to WSW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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