Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Friarstown (clanwilliam By., Ballybricken Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarstown (clanwilliam By., Ballybricken Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54796, -8.53080
- SMR number
- LI023-242----
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 flat pasture 500m N of the Camoge River and the townland boundary with Ballingoola. The enclosure (LI023-205----) is located 25m NW. The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps or on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 13302; AP 4/3656) as a ring-barrow. The monument is not visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 13302 and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 1 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- 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.