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Barrow - ring-barrow

Kilduff, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Kilduff, 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
Kilduff
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.55538, -8.32978
SMR number
LI024-049004-

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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 wet, level pasture, with excellent views of Knockseefin to WNW and 45m NW of a townland boundary with Ballyhurst. A cluster of six possible barrows (LI024-049002-/007-), with enclosure (LI024-049001-) in centre of field. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 90.03; AP 4/3678) as a ring-barrow.
Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (4m NE-SW; 3.5m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.15m; H 0.16-0.2m) with fosse (Wth 3.55-4.55m; D 0.15-0.18m) visible from NE-E-S-W-NW and a possible outer bank (Wth 4.75m; int. H 0.18m; ext. H 0.18m) visible from NE-ENE-E. The monument is open from NW-N-NE where it is truncated by a drain running NE-SW. The interior is level and grass covered. Monument is visible as a faint, roughly oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.

See attached photocopy of Bruff aerial photograph labelled 90.03 and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick and Alison McQueen

Date of upload: 6 April 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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