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
- 52.44610, -8.30053
- SMR number
- TS066-099003-
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
On level area of improved pasture. Circular area (dims. 6m N-S; 5.4m E-W) defined by distinctive fosse (Wth 1.95m; D 0.1m) abutting conjoined ditch barrow (TS066-099001-) to WSW. Possible traces of a levelled bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.15m) best preserved WNW-N and NE-ENE and levelled elsewhere. Interior generally level and slightly lower than exterior ground level. Identified as a ring-ditch on an aerial photograph (OS 2436/7 mono).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.