Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Lissobihane, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissobihane
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45723, -8.31935
- SMR number
- TS066-182002-
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 pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope, overlooking rough pasture to the S and situated within the SE sector of a larger sub-circular area (diam. c. 12m) defined by low scarp (H 0.2m) NE-S-NW. Identified during field survey by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly (5 December 2008). A sub-circular area (dims. 5m N-S; 4.2m E-W) defined by the remains of a shallow fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.05m) NE-S-NW. The monument has been levelled upslope across the N-sector. The interior is 0.1m higher than the external ground level. There is a field boundary 10m to the NW and the SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 9 September 2014
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.