Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Garranacanty, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garranacanty
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48476, -8.13719
- SMR number
- TS067-139----
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 generally flat terrain, sloping slightly to the E, in pasture. There are good views to the E and S, though limited by trees and the view N and W is limited by a ridge. A circular enclosure, one of a group of four ditch barrows (TS067-136---- is c. 20m to the NW; TS067-137--- is c. 17m to the NNE, and TS067-138---- is c. 20m to the SW) visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 16 December 2016), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The monument could not be identified at ground level at time of inspection.
See attached:
TS067-139----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, 16 December 2016
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 January 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.