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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballyvouden, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballyvouden, 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
Ballyvouden
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.53132, -8.39714
SMR number
LI024-064----

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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 unimproved pasture, 170m SE of Glenatrahaun Stream. A ring-barrow (LI024-214----) lies 50m to S. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 16m) defined by a scarp (H 0.75m), with fosse (Wth 4.55m; base Wth 2m; D 0.65m) visible from SE-S-W-N-NNE and an outer bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.25m) is evident from SE-S-W-N-NNE. A raised oval shape area (3m N-S; 5.5m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 1.3m; H 0.5m) is visible in S quadrant of the interior and could be the remains of a small ring-ditch. A field boundary lies to the immediate W of the monument. Ring-barrow is visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork on ASI aerial photograph (ASIAP 132, 33, 34 taken 23/058/2000 and 05/01/2003). Well preserved monument visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.

See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 18 July 2020

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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