Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Kilduff, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilduff
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55358, -8.34003
- SMR number
- LI024-256----
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 low-lying, poorly drained pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 50m NW of a stream which also forms a townland boundary with Garrison. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. A ditch-barrow (LI024-174003-) and an enclosure (LI024-174004-) lie 40m to NW and 70m to NE, respectively. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 256: AP 4/3678). Monument is visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 7m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2015 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 256.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 9 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.