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Barrow - ring-barrow

Glen (Clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Glen, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

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

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