Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballyhobin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhobin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54832, -8.46042
- SMR number
- LI023-248----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On flat pasture partially bisected by the townland boundary with Rathjordan, 50m E of the townland boundary with Doonvullen Upper. Ring-barrow (LI023-211----) 250m to N. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is faintly visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 282 AP 4/3658) as a ring-barrow comprised of a circular area defined by a fosse with an external bank (ext. diam. 38m E-W). The S tip of the monument is in Rathjordan townland bisected by the townland boundary. The ring-barrow is visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006 and 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the ring-barrow labelled Bruff 282 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 1 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.