Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Nicker, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nicker
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57298, -8.34018
- SMR number
- LI024-274----
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, rough, wet pasture, 35m W of a stream and 145m WNW of a townland boundary with Garrane More. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Ring-barrow (LI024-273----) lies 10m to N. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 274: AP 4/3723). Monument is not visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however it is visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 8m) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 12 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.