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Barrow - ring-barrow

Feloree, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Feloree, 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
Feloree
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54933, -8.41030
SMR number
LI023-287----

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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

In pasture 180m SE of enclosure (LI023-058----). Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 22; AP 4/3665) as circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a scarp. Upstanding monument (approx. ext. diam. 34m) clearly visible as a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 18m) enclosed by a fosse and outer bank on OSi orthoimage. Pond immediately to NNE and a second pond to SSE. Cropmark of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 25/05/2017. Same site as LI024-177----.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 21 July 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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