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
- 52.57541, -8.55317
- SMR number
- LI023-292----
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
In low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. A ring-barrow (LI023-268----) lies 4m to SW and a ring-barrow (LI023-269----) lies 110m to ESE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small, circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 249.01: AP 4/3706). Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped cropmark (11m NE-SW; 10m NW-SE) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 249.01.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 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.