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Barrow - ring-barrow

Leamaneh South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Leamaneh South, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Leamaneh South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.98003, -9.14294
SMR number
CL016-030----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a knoll, near the bottom of an E-facing slope overlooking a N-S stream with high ground to the E. The views are limited but another barrow (CL016-029----) is visible c. 800m to the W. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘ring-barrow (possible)’ in the RMP (1996).
A poorly preserved ring-barrow (20.4m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) comprising a low subrectangular mound (8.9m NW-SE; 5.1m NE-SW) with slightly raised edges surrounded by a slight but continuous fosse (Wth 1-4m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.4-6m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.3-1.3m) from NE to S. The bank is highest (1.3m) from E-SE where it merges with the natural slope. A large limestone boulder (L 1.7m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.5m) sits on the projected line of the bank at SW and another possible vestige of the bank is visible at WNW. A gap in the bank at SW (Wth 6.3m) may be an original entrance. The barrow has been cut by field drains at W and N.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 11 May 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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