Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bruff
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47765, -8.56177
- SMR number
- LI031-160002-
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 reclaimed pasture, 160m SW of Morningstar River, immediately E of field drain which marks townland boundary with Garbally. Possible earthwork (LI031-160003-) to immediate SW and possible ditch-barrow (LI031-160001-) lies 20m to SW. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 58; AP5/2059) as a small circular cropmark of a possible ditch-barrow. Faint trace of cropmark visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 58 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 22 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.