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
- 52.54372, -8.42089
- SMR number
- LI023-225010-
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. Within a large complex of ring-barrows and conjoined to ring-barrow (LI023-225011-) at NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 15610: AP 4/3665). Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork (13m NW-SE; 11m NE-SW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 15610.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 10 September 2020
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.