Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Rockbarton (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockbarton (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52328, -8.55984
- SMR number
- LI031-176001-
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 wet pasture 120m SW of townland boundary with Ballycullane and Grange, 1.7km WNW of Lough Gur. The ring-barrow (LI031-176001-) is one of nine ring-barrows and an enclosure (LI031-076002/8- and LI031-177001/2-) in a ring-barrow cemetery within a 200m radius. The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps. It is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 but not on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 36.01; AP 4/3644) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 6m). The ring-barrow is faintly visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006, but not on the latest Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 36.01 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 22 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.