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Barrow - ring-barrow

Gortavalla East, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Gortavalla East, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gortavalla East
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.58592, -8.27938
SMR number
LI024-309001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 35m N of a townland boundary with Coolbaun. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The western most of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-309001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Monument identified by Emmet Byrnes, Forest Service archaeologist in 2010 and described as a low profile circular-shaped mound (diam. 5m; H 0.4m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 1.2m) and an outer bank (approx. Wth 1.8m; approx. H 0.4m) (SMR file). Forestry planted to W and N. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos 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: 16 October 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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