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Barrow - ring-barrow

Rathjordan, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Rathjordan, 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
Rathjordan
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.53434, -8.47696
SMR number
LI023-092002-

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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 level pasture, on top of low lying natural rise. Circular area (8.9m N-S; 7.4m E-W; D 0.15m) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 4.85m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.2m), with external fosse (basal Wth 0.9m; overall Wth 3.75m; D 0.05m) and counter-scarp bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.1m) WSW-WNW. Lazy beds (long-axis NNE-SSW) cut across the field, but respect monument. Dished interior may indicate excavation in antiquity. According to local information, an 'earthen cup' was found in one of the four barrows in this field. Ring-barrow (LI023-092001-) is c. 45m to SW and barrows (LI023-092003- and LI023-092004-) c. 50m and c. 150m to S respectively.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 19 November 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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