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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballyveelish, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballyveelish, 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
Ballyveelish
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.57343, -8.67701
SMR number
LI022-149----

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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 undulating pasture, 118m N of townland boundary with Shanaclogh, ring-barrows (LI022-150/148----) lie 15m to E and 160m to NW respectively. Possible ringfort (LI022-007----) lies 150m to NE. Identified from an examination of 1:5000 aerial photographs (BGE No. 3224; Site No. 022196) taken 03/11/1984 associated with the Bord Gáis Éireann Cork-Dublin gas pipeline. Site visited by the ASI in 2000 and described as irregular undulations in area of possible monument however no definite enclosing element visible. Faint outline of possible ring-barrow visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2006.

See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photo (BGE No. 3224) with site labelled 022196 and Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006 and 14/02/2020

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 14 August 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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