Barrow - ring-barrow

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).