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Barrow - ring-barrow

Logavinshire, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Logavinshire, 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
Logavinshire
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.58626, -8.68571
SMR number
LI022-184----

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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 Limerick racecourse track on a slight NW-facing slope. Fulacht fia (LI022-226----) lies 220m to W and enclosure (LI022-185----) 200m to SE. Not depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map or the 1897 25-inch OS map. Identified as Site 22 by Celie O’Rahilly, archaeologist, Limerick Corporation as part of an archaeological assessment for the development of a racecourse at Greenmount, Co. Limerick. The monument was described as following; ‘a low bank defining a figure-of-eight shape, orientated south-west/north-east. The central area measuring 22m long by 12m wide is at a slightly lower area than the surrounding field, which slopes gently eastwards. Possible double ring-barrow’ (O‘Rahilly 1995). Visited by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019.

See attached location map by Celie O'Rahilly showing location of site 22.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 11 August 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 Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd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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