What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow (ring-barrow) in Ballynacree, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a level rise in wet pasture and joins a second ring-barrow to the east-south-east. A separate embanked enclosure stands 18m to the north-east, while the Longstone standing stone appears 1.5km to the north-north-east. The circular barrow measures 2.4m across, has a 0.6m wide and 0.15m high earthen scarp, a 0.7m wide shallow fosse at its base, and an external bank 2.8m wide with internal and external heights of 0.15m and 0.05m.

On top of level surface of a slight rise, on the floor of a wide gently sloping NE-SW orientated valley, in level low-lying wet pasture. This ring-barrow is conjoined to a second ring-barrow (TS058-070001-) to the ESE. An embanked enclosure (TS058-046----) is located 18m to the NE, the standing stone (TS058-023004-) at Longstone is visible 1.5km to the NNE with a mound-barrow (TS058-047----) visible 750m to the SE. Circular area (diam. 2.4m) defined by an earthen scarp (Wth 0.6m; H 0.15m) with a shallow fosse (Wth at base 0.7m) and an external earthen bank (overall Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.05m). The external bank is incorporated into the external bank of a slightly smaller ring-barrow (TS058-070001-) WSW-WNW. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, and part of a small barrow group, indicating a significant funerary or ritual landscape.

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