Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-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
- 52.55255, -8.34167
- SMR number
- LI024-258----
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, 70m NW of a stream which also forms a townland boundary with Garrison. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Ring-barrows (LI024-257/-253----) lie 25m to E and 65m to NNE, respectively. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 258: AP 4/3678). Monument is visible as a faint, suboval-shaped cropmark (approx. 6m NW-SE; 4.5m NE-SW) on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 258.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 9 October 2020
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.