Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - stepped barrow
Jossestown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jossestown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43082, -7.71681
- SMR number
- TS070-115----
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 gentle N-facing slope. Identified on aerial photograph (GSI S.637/8, 16.4.1974). A circular area (dims. 20m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by low profile earthen scarp (Wth 0.2m; ext. H 0.15m) and an intervening fosse (basal Wth 2m; overall Wth 7m; D 0.2m). Generally level area/berm (Wth 5m) outside intervening fosse and slight trace of a wider circular area (overall dims. 50m N-S; 52m E-W) defined by an outer fosse (Wth 11m; D 0.15m). Truncated by drainage ditch and field boundary) SW-W-NW.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 3 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.