Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Garravin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garravin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55302, -8.28012
- SMR number
- LI024-297----
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 level, wet pasture, 135m NE of a townland boundary with Brackloon. A ring-barrow (LI024-060----) lies 170m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (5.25m NNE-SSW; 7m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.5-1.8m; H 0.35-0.45m). The interior is grass covered. A dry land drain to N which runs WNW-ESE is channelled toward a pond 40m to WNW. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.