Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Mountminnett, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountminnett
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54372, -8.44508
- SMR number
- LI023-224----
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. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 154: AP 4/3662). Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork (22m NNW-SSE; 17m ENE-WSW) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 154.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 8 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.