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Barrow - ring-barrow

Hundredacres West, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Hundredacres West, 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
Hundredacres West
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.61824, -8.48971
SMR number
LI014-130----

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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 poorly drained recently pasture, 25m SE of large impressive barrow (LI014-034----). Oultine of barrow (overall dims 21m N-S x 17m E-W) consisting of a small circular shaped depression defined by a fosse enclosed by a sub-circular shaped berm and external fosse visible on earlier OSi orthoimages. Cropmark of monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13, the internal feature of the monument is not visible on this image. Cropmark of monument barely visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Outline of monument much clearer on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018 and on ASI aerial imagery taken 23/08/2000.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 7 July 2020

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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