What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow (bowl-barrow) in Ballyrickard North, County Tipperary, Ireland. It stands in a nineteenth-century grove of trees alongside the driveway into Congor House. The steep-sided conical mound reaches 3.4 metres in height and spans 11.6 metres from northeast to southwest at its base. Built of earth and stone without an enclosing ditch, it may have been a burial mound later reused as a landscape feature.

Situated in a nineteenth-century grove of trees alongside the driveway into Congor House. A steep-sided conical mound (H 3.4m; base diam. 11.6m NE-SW) of earth and stone with no evidence of an enclosing fosse. A possible burial mound which may have been reused as a landscape feature. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

A bowl barrow dating to the Early Bronze Age; it represents a common form of burial monument in Ireland, typically associated with single inhumations. Its presence indicates early settlement and funerary practices in the region.

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