Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballybricken South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybricken South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55658, -8.51945
- SMR number
- LI023-190001-
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 improved pasture, 20 E of a land drain. Ring-barrows(LI023-190002-) lies 100m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 279: AP 4/3693). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 279.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 2 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.