Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Hundredacres West, County Limerick, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.