Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballingoola, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingoola
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53712, -8.53667
- SMR number
- LI023-065----
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 wet pasture, 10m N of a land drain and 30m E of a tributary of the Camoge River. A ring-barrow (LI023-239----) lies 115m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Described by Ó Ríordáin and MacDermott (1949, 127) as a barrow on an irregularly-shaped platform. Visible as a small circular-shaped earthwork on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3642). Monument is visible as a faint circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 8m) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 and location map showing barrow marked site X after Ó Ríordáin and MacDermott 1949.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 August 2020
References
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. and MacDermott, M. 1949 Lough Gur Excavations: Three marsh-land habitation sites. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 79, 126-45.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.