Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Barrettstown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrettstown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46477, -7.73439
- SMR number
- TS070-035003-
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
On relatively flat ground in gently undulating terrain, under pasture, immediately W of barn and stables. Aerial photographs taken in 1966 (CUCAP APG 52), 1968 (CUCAP AVS 54), 1969 (CUCAP AYO 70) and 1971 (CUCAP BGK 65) shows a rectangular enclosure with a partially waterlogged fosse c. 400m W of Barrettstown tower house (TS070-035001-) and is part of a complex of earthworks (TS070-035----) which may be associated with the tower house. to S and W. Since 1971 this enclosure has been levelled and is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.