Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Mountminnett, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountminnett
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54829, -8.43466
- SMR number
- LI023-326----
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 rough, wet, water-shaped pasture, 85m E of a townland boundary with Tonteere and 75m S of a watercourse. Ring-barrows (LI023-325/213----) lie 11m to W and 25m to SW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small, circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 234.3: AP 4/3664). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 11m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, however is not visible on Digital Globe orthoimage 201-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 234.3.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.