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Barrow - ring-barrow

Friarstown (Clanwilliam By., Ballybricken ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Friarstown, 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
Friarstown (Clanwilliam By., Ballybricken ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54551, -8.53015
SMR number
LI023-214----

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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

On low-lying, improved wet pasture 10m E of a land drain and a plot of forestry and 15m S of a farm trackway. A townland boundary with Friarstown lies 200m to E and the Camoge River lies 230m to S. Ring-barrow (LI023-243----) lies 14m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 13401: AP 4/3656). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 15m) on OSi aerial orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and is evident as an oblong-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 13401.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 6 September 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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