Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ceremonial enclosure
Carron (st. John Baptist Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carron (st. John Baptist Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathnadov
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathnadov
- Coordinates
- 52.47543, -7.88794
- SMR number
- TS069-002001-
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 upper contour of gentle S-facing slope. Large circular area (dims. 68m N-S; 69m E-W) defined by wide, flat-bottomed internal fosse (Wth 7.2m; D 0.1m) and external bank (Wth 7.45m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 0.7m) of earth with stone inclusions. The external bank is visible at NW only due to thick furze cover around bank and fosse elsewhere. Breach (Wth min. 4m) at NE is partially covered by furze on either side; identified on aerial photograph (DPM 30th April 1979) as original entrance. Interior is generally level and tends slightly down slope to E; Ring-barrow (TS069-002002-) is off-centre to W. Linear scarp (long-axis c. N-S) to NE area has slight breach (Wth 1.5m) allowing access from a lower level at E to marginally higher level at W of interior. Named on latest edition OS 6-inch map as 'Rathnadov'. Enclosure (TS069-003----) c. 300m to SE. Another internal ring-barrow (TS069-002003-) has been identified in the SW quadrant, clearly visible on 3-D modelling (see https://skfb.ly/KuHP).
This is a National Monument (no. 537).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 3 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.