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Barrow - ring-barrow

Plaukarauka, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Plaukarauka, 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
Plaukarauka
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54443, -8.31769
SMR number
LI024-310001-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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, 40m NW of a townland boundary with Bohernagraga. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The eastern most of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3673) and identified as a ring-barrow by the ASI during further analysis of the survey in 2010. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthophotos and is visible as a suboval-shaped cropmark (13m E-W; 9.5m N-S) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff Survey image showing monument highlighted.

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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