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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballyshoneen, County Limerick, Ireland

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Townland
Ballyshoneen
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54775, -8.32143
SMR number
LI024-187----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 pasture 75m N of the townland boundary with Plaukarauka. Ring-barrows (LI024-186/229----) located 180m to N. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 42; AP 4/3673) as a circular cropmark. Outline of monument visible as a circular -shaped area (approx. diam. 12.5m) defined by a ditch on OSi orthophotos 2005-2012.

See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 42.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 27 July 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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