Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Leamaneh South, County Clare, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.