Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballyvouden, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvouden
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53056, -8.39700
- SMR number
- LI024-214----
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 wet pasture, 260m S of Glenatrahaun Stream and the townland boundary with Ballynagally. A ring-barrow (LI024-064----) lies 50m to N and an enclosure (LI024-215----) is located abutting the ring-barrow to the E. The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps, but is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 30.1; AP 4/3631) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 25m), the site is characterised by a central wide interior surrounded by a fosse (Wth 2m). The Bruff survey identified a central mound (Bruff 30.2) within the interior of the site. Recorded by ASI aerial photographic survey 23/08/2000 (ASIAP (132) 34. The ring-barrow is faintly visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 30.1-2, ASI survey image showing the ring-barrow view S, and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.