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Barrow

Barrow, ditch barrow

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Barrow is a barrow (ditch barrow) in Mooresfort, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies improved pasture on Mooresfort Estate, sitting on a gentle southeast-facing slope inside a larger ring barrow. A very low ditch, three metres wide and twenty centimetres deep, marks the edge of the roughly circular area, which measures 5.5 metres east-northeast to west-southwest and 4.7 metres west-northwest to east-southeast.
In pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope, within ring-barrow (TS066-101001-). In improved pasture on Mooresfort Estate. Roughly circular area (dims. 5.5m ENE-WSW; 4.7m WNW-ESE) defined by very low profile fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age; its location within a ring-barrow suggests a ceremonial or funerary landscape of regional significance.

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