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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.54430, -8.37286
SMR number
LI024-070----

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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 gentle SSE-facing slope, in reclaimed pasture with Glenatrahaun Stream 10m to E. A cluster of three ring-ditches (LI024-225----) lie 80m to NW and a ring-ditch (LI024-224----) lies 120m to SW. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (24m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m) with traces of a shallow outer fosse (Wth 5.3m; D 0.15m), a slight gap (Wth 5m) in the scarp is visible at NNW and a second gap (Wth 6m) at WNW. Linear drainage channels are visible in the field to the N, S and W of the site. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and 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

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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