What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow (ditch barrow) in Ballysheehan (ballysheehan Par.), County Tipperary, Ireland. During the 1999 stud-farm redevelopment, topsoil partially covered earthworks that may represent a deserted medieval village. A digital terrain model made beforehand showed three circular mounds 5-6m across. Their shallow ring ditches may be barrows or remains of circular feeding troughs.

In flat grassland. In 1999, during the redevelopment of the stud farm, these earthworks, which possibly represents the remains of a deserted medieval village, were partially buried in topsoil to make the land safe for livestock (Purcell and Gowen 2000, 283). A digital terrain model of the earthworks, prior to this, revealed several features including three circular mounds (diam. 5-6m) which appear as 'shallow ring ditches' and may be barrows or 'residual features from circular feeding troughs' (O'Donovan and Duffy 2002, 39-40). Earthworks to the S which appear on aerial photographs (CUCAP 1967, ATA 64; CUCAP 1971, BGO 11) appear to be the remains of a medieval deserted settlement (TS053-042003-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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