What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow (embanked barrow) in Ballygambon, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is a circular embanked area 28 metres north-south and 30 metres east-west, bounded by a 9-metre-wide bank rising 2.4 metres externally and 0.6 metres internally, with an outer ditch 5 metres wide and 1.25 metres deep. The interior is level with scattered mixed trees, and the barrow touches a possible second embanked barrow to the south across a 2.7-metre-wide level ridge between their ditches. A ringfort stands 230 metres north-northwest.

In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (dims. 28m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by bank (Wth 9m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.4m), reduced to scarp (Wth 3m; H 1.8m) in places. External fosse (Wth 5m; D 1.25m). Interior is generally level and planted occasionally with mixed tree species. Abuts possible embanked barrow (TS070-072001-) to S, where the respective fosses of are separated by a level ridge (Wth 2.7m). No evidence of a causewayed entrance. Ringfort (TS070-070----) located 230m to NNW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Embanked barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. This type of monument represents an important phase in the evolution of burial and ceremonial earthworks in Ireland.

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