TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ceremonial enclosure

Carron (St. John Baptist Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ceremonial enclosure, Carron (St. John Baptist Par.), County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ceremonial enclosure in Tipperary South All County Tipperary South records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map