Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Rathmore North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.52413, -8.62601
- SMR number
- LI031-032----
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
This monument is located in undulating, low-lying pasture NW of the Camoge river. The monument looks onto a broken circle of hills which surround the county from Foynes in the NW to Drumcollliher in the S and the Galty Mtns in the SE. It comprises a broken circuit of bank (Wth 5m, H 1m), inside of which is a silted-up fosse (Wth 4m, D 0.4m) giving the monument an overall diameter of c. 42m. There is a definite break in the E (Wth 2m). The bank either side of this is squared off and retained by a stone revetment (O'Kelly, 1944-5, 49).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 3 February 2012
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 308/31 taken 13/09/2002 and 329/7 taken 05/10/2002.
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.