Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Moanoola, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moanoola
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53619, -8.26342
- SMR number
- LI025-033001-
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 flat pasture 140m E of the N tip of the townland boundary with Castlelloyd. One of five barrows (LI025-033002-/003/004/005-) in a barrow cemetery. The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps, but is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12. Not visible on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 10.1; AP 4/3621) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 9m). The ring-barrow is visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 10.1 and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 22 September 2020
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.