Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballyphilip (clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyphilip (clanwilliam By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54402, -8.42079
- SMR number
- LI023-225004-
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, wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses. Conjoined to ring-barrow (LI023-225005-) to NE and within a large complex of ring-barrows. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a semicircular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 15604: AP 4/3665). Monument is visible as a faint semicircular-shaped earthwork (C 11m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, however it is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 15604.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 9 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
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- 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.