Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballingoola, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingoola
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53794, -8.53524
- SMR number
- LI023-239----
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
In flat pasture 150m E of a tributary flowing gently N to the Camoge River. A ring-barrow (LI023-065----) lies 115m to SW. The monument is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the later Digital Globe orthoimage. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 119; AP 4/3642) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 10m). Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017, not visible on the most recent image taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing enclosure labelled Bruff 119 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 31 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.