Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Bunavie, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunavie
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57282, -8.35776
- SMR number
- LI024-306----
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 an elevated area of rough, wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 65m W of a townland boundary with Ballyvoneen. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Ring-barrow (LI024-014002-) and enclosure (LI024-014001-) are 12m to NW and 65m to W, respectively. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a low profile circular-shaped area (9.4m N-S; 9m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 0.65m; H 0.05-0.15m) and external fosse (Wth 1.8-1.9m; D 0.1-0.17m). The interior has an E-facing slope and is grass covered. Monument is visible as a much larger oval-shaped cropmark (25m N-S; 20m E-W) 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: 16 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.