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Barrow - unclassified

Greenmount, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Greenmount, 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
Greenmount
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.58958, -8.68140
SMR number
LI013-178----

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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

In pasture, approx. 50m NW of ringfort (LI013-170001-) and immediately W of ringfort (LI013-071----). Not depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map or the 1897 25-inch OS map. Identified as site 29 by Celie O’Rahilly, archaeologist, Limerick Corporation as part of an archaeological assessment for the development of a racecourse at Greenmount, Co. Limerick. It was described as following; ‘a hollow sub-circular area circa. 30m north-south. The western side is higher due to the sloping ground and it is open to the east. There is a low mound centrally placed’ (O‘Rahilly 1995). Monument not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020.

See attached location map by Celie O'Rahilly showing location of site 29.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 1 July 2020

References

O’Rahilly, C 1995 Archaeological report for the proposed racecourse at Greenmount Co. Limerick. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd

Nearby in the register

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

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