Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballywire, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballywire
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43592, -8.31000
- SMR number
- TS066-171----
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 level, poorly drained area of improved pasture, at base of SE-facing slope. Circular area (dims. 5.8m N-S; 6.0m E-W) defined by remains of a shallow fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.12m) and the remains of outer bank (Wth at top 1.6m; total Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.12m; ext. H 0.14m) WSW-NNE. The fosse is waterlogged SSW-SE. Interior is level and same height as exterior ground level. Identified as a barrow during a survey by Eoin Grogan.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.