Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Doonvullen Upper, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonvullen Upper
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55656, -8.46266
- SMR number
- LI023-183----
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
On low-lying scrubby, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. Ring-barrows (LI023-255/-181----) lie 135m and 145m to NW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small penannular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 247: AP 4/3689). Monument is visible as a light green roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 247.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 2 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.