Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballynagally, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagally
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.54316, -8.37739
- SMR number
- LI024-068----
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 slight SE-facing slope, in poorly drained pasture with stream 95m to SE. Ring-barrow (LI024-224----) lies 170m to ENE. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a poorly preserved monument consisting of a circular-shaped area (20m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 3.4m; H 0.65m) with possible traces of a shallow external fosse visible from NW-N-NE. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope. According to local information this area is known as ‘the moat field’. Outline of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 18/11/2018.
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).
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.