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Barrow - unclassified

Ballysallagh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Ballysallagh, 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
Ballysallagh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54523, -8.47551
SMR number
LI023-218----

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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, cut by land drains and watercourses. A watercourse lies 20m to E, which also marks a townland boundary with Rathjordan and a parish boundary between Caherelly and Rathjordan. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark enclosing a low central mound by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 14701 & 02: AP 4/3660). The NE arc of the monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however is not visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 26/08/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages 05/04/2006 and 26/08/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 14701 & 02.

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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