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
- 52.45036, -8.28658
- SMR number
- TS066-148----
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 gentle NW-facing slope. Poorly preserved, roughly circular area (dims. 6.75m N-S; 5.5m E-W) defined by remains of a very shallow fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.1m). Interior same height as exterior ground level and falls gently around its perimeter to fosse. Identified on an aerial photograph (252/2).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.