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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballynagally, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.54191, -8.38186
SMR number
LI024-067----

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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 reclaimed wet pasture, with a spring well 20m to SSE and a stream 100m to SE marking townland boundary with Coologe. On the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map the townland boundary with Ballynagally is depicted standing immediately E of the monument. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as the remains of a circular-shaped area (26m ENE-WSW; 24m NNW-SSE) the S half of which has been levelled. The N half of the monument survives as a semi-circular-shaped area (26m ENE-WSW; 10m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.2m; H 0.5m) with fosse (Wth 7.2m; D 0.45m) visible from NNW-N-ENE, with possible traces of an outer bank (Wth 8.7m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.3m) from N-NNE-ENE. The S half of the monument is defined by the remains of a much degraded bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.6m) visible from ENE-E-S-WSW. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork on ASI aerial photographs (ASIAP 353, 23) taken 05/01/2003. Monument is 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

O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.

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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