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Barrow - ditch barrow

Ballynagally, County Limerick, Ireland

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Townland
Ballynagally
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54000, -8.39078
SMR number
LI024-218----

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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 wet pasture adjacent to and forming part of a group of barrows. It is conjoined with a ditch-barrow (LI024-066----) to the SW. Enclosure (LI024-291----) located 50m to WSW. The ditch-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps nor is it visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 218; AP 4/3666) as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 28.5m N-S; 27.5m E-W). It is visible on ASI aerial photographic survey 05/01/2003 (ASIAP (353) 20). The enclosure is visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017, it is not clear on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 218, ASI survey image showing the enclosure view SW, and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 15 September 2020

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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