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Barrow - ditch barrow

Camas South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Camas South, 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
Camas South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47900, -8.58669
SMR number
LI031-116----

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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

On wet flat pasture, 105m SE of the Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Carrigeen. Enclosures (LI031-195/184----) lie 26m to SW and 20m to NW respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 51.02: AP 4/2061) as a circular-shaped enclosure. Faint trace of circular cropmark visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. Cropmark of ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 04/04/2013. Possible ditch-barrow.

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Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 1 April 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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