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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballyhobin, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballyhobin, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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