Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Glen (clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glen (clanwilliam By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55642, -8.37426
- SMR number
- LI024-246----
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 hillside pasture truncated by a field boundary removing the N half of the monument, 130m NE of the townland boundary with Knocknacrohy. The barrow is one of five ring-barrows (LI024-041/243/246/342/341----) in a cemetery 90m apart. Two further enclosures, most likely ringforts (LI024-341/040----) are located 55m to S and 20m E respectively. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps. Visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified during examination of Bruff aerial photographic survey of 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3681) as a ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 8.5m). The site is visible with its N side truncated by a field boundary on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 246 and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 18 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.