Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballynagarde, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagarde
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57530, -8.55326
- SMR number
- LI023-268----
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 undulating pasture 140m SW of the townland boundary with Stonepark. The ring-barrow (LI023-268----) is one of a pair of ring-barrows (LI023-292----) 8m apart. Ring-barrow (LI023-269----) located in the adjacent field 120m to ESE. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 24901; AP 4/3706) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 10m). The ring-barrow is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 02/06/2018, it is less obvious on the most recent Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 24901 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 4 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.