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
- 52.43210, -8.31389
- SMR number
- TS066-172----
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 low-lying, gently undulating, marshy terrain, in rough pasture, at the base of a hillock which is surmounted by a standing stone (TS066-198----), visible 100m to the N. A stream runs roughly N-S c. 120m to the W. There is a stepped barrow (TS066-122----) 80m to the S and a ditch barrow (TS066-166----) 184m to the N. This monument was identified on an aerial photograph (Air Corps 249/16, 02/09/1959). A circular, slightly raised mound (diam. 6.5m) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.4-1.6m; D 0.08-0.14m) and a poorly preserved outer bank (int. H 0.1-0.15m; ext. H 0.8-0.1m; Wth 1.2-1.9m at crest, 1.4-2.3m at base).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.