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Barrow - unclassified

Gannavane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Gannavane, County Limerick, 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
Gannavane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured - Indicated (1927)
Coordinates
52.65918, -8.25130
SMR number
LI008-005----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On level poorly drained ground in upland area, on the edge of a SSW-facing slope, with panoramic views from E-S-W-NW. Summit of Cullaun Mountain 1km to N. A possible pond barrow (LI008-004----) or quarry hole lies c. 35m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular shaped enclosure standing immediately S of the townland boundary with Gannavane Upper. Shown on the OSi 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped area defined by a fosse intersected at N by the townland boundary running E-W. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a slightly raised subcircular-shaped area (31m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m; Wth 1.1m) from NW-N-E-S-W-WNW. The scarp is absent from WNW-NW and may represent an entrance feature. The interior is generally level. A relic field boundary running E-W extends from the exterior at SSE. This is a very low profile monument and is not known locally as a fort. Visible as roughly oval-shaped area enclosed by a green band of differential growth on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. The interior is covered in rushes suggesting a poorly drained pond-like interior which could be the remains of a barrow rather than that of a ringfort.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 3 July 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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