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Barrow - ditch barrow

Ballynagally, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Ballynagally, 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
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----

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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

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

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

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