What is recorded here
Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with nearby barrow cemetery (TN031-024/025/023) to NW. A sunken area (diam. 6.5m N-S; D 1m) with traces of a possible enclosing bank. This may be the quarried-out remains of a barrow.
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 Bronze Age tumulus, likely associated with a barrow cemetery; its location and orientation suggest ritual or funerary significance in a prehistoric landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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