Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Roesborough, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roesborough
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47535, -8.21712
- SMR number
- TS066-231----
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 wet terrain of former meandering streams, with a stream flowing roughly NW-SE c. 60m to the W, in pasture. A circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 9m), defined by a fosse, visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 16 December 2016 and 20 January 2020), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There are two ring-barrows (TS066-204----; TS066-205----) c. 650m and 610m to the NW respectively.
See attached:
TS066-231----_01 Google Earth satellite image (imagery date, 16 December 2016)
TS066-231----_02 Google Earth satellite image (imagery date, 20 January 2020)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.