Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballynagally, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagally
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.53974, -8.39109
- SMR number
- LI024-066----
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
On SSE-facing slope, in wet pasture. Ring-barrow (LI024-065----) lies 110m to WSW. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 16m) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.2m; H 0.5m) with fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.4m) visible from SSW-W-N-E-ESE. The interior is bisected by a linear scarp (Wth 3.75m; H 0.5m) running WNW-ESE. A rectangular-shaped stone (L 0.7m; Wth 0.3m; H 0.35m) is visible in the NE-quadrant. A drainage channel and field boundary lie 6m to SE and 11m to NE, respectively. Monument visible as a circular-shaped earthwork on ASI aerial photographs (ASIAP 132, 36) taken 23/08/2000 and 05/01/2003. Outline of monument clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.
See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP images taken 2003
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).
O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.