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Barrow - ring-barrow

Rathmore North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Rathmore North, 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
Rathmore North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.52413, -8.62601
SMR number
LI031-032----

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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

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

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

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