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Barrow - ring-barrow

Doonvullen Upper, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Doonvullen Upper, 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
Doonvullen Upper
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.55769, -8.46386
SMR number
LI023-255----

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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 low-lying ready wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. Ring-barrow (LI023-181----) lies 10m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 12m) by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 24602: AP 4/3689). The site of the ring-barrow survives as a dry grassy area within reeds with a relic field boundary (orientated NNE/SSW) or drain cut through the E side of the monument. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Bruff survey image labelled Bruff 24602 and Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 2 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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