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
- 52.56678, -8.35218
- SMR number
- LI024-300----
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
On a NW-facing slope, in improved pasture, 15m to SE of a townland boundary with Bunavie. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Abutting outer fosse of enclosure (LI024-015----) at SW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a low profile, circular-shaped area (1.9m N-S; 1.2m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.1m; D 0.05m) and the remains of an outer bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.05m; ext. H 1.3m). Monument is visible as a faint, roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 15 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.