Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Garryduff (glenquin By., Garryduff Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryduff (glenquin By., Garryduff Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not shown
- Coordinates
- 52.53890, -8.26641
- SMR number
- LI025-035----
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
In rough, level pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 200m to W of a townland boundary with Moanoola. Ring-barrow (LI025-034----) lies 7m to N. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a low profile circular-shaped area (diam. 3.2m) defined by a scarp (Wth 0.5-0.75m; H 0.08-0.11m), a fosse (Wth 2.05-2.6m; D 0.05-0.07m) and an outer bank (Wth 1.95-2.8m; int. H 0.05-0.07m; ext. H 0.05-0.09m). The monument is waterlogged at present. Monument is visible as a faint, roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos 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: 22 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.