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Barrow - stepped barrow

Lisgaugh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - stepped barrow, Lisgaugh, 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
Lisgaugh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.59767, -8.23821
SMR number
LI016-013----

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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 top of a low rise (343ft/105m OD), in pasture, with excellent views from SW-W-NW. Depicted as a raised circular shaped are enclosed by a wide berm on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. An OS trig. station marking 345 ft. OD is shown standing on N side of enclosure on Cassini 6-inch map. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (33m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a scarp, berm and the remains of a low outer bank with entrance gap (Wth 5m) at E and a corresponding entrance gap (Wth 2m) in the outer bank. The intervening berm is level and present from NW-N-E-S-SW and a steep natural slope falls from the outer edge of the monument from SW-W-NW. The outer edge of the berm is defined by a low earthen bank from NNE-E-SE and by a scarp from SE-S-SW. The interior is slightly dome-shaped. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped, tree-planted enclosure on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 12 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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