Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Friarstown (clanwilliam By., Ballybricken Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarstown (clanwilliam By., Ballybricken Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54819, -8.53103
- SMR number
- LI023-205----
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, water-shaped pasture, 120m E of a watercourse. Ring-barrow (LI023-242----) 15m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a suboval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 13301: AP 4/3656). Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped earthwork (approx. 24m N-S; 19m E-W) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 01/10/2015.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 01/10/2015 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 13301.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 4 September
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 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.