Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Brackyle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackyle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56761, -8.31698
- SMR number
- LI024-130----
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
In rough, wet pasture, 12m SE of a field boundary and 70m SW of a stream. Ditch-barrows (LI024-319/320/318----) lie 185m to N, 200m to NE and 190m to NE, respectively. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 149: AP 4/3677). Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (approx. dim. 19m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. Vague traces of a cropmark are visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 149.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 24 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.