Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50285, -8.45060
- SMR number
- LI032-097002-
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
In forestry, 100m NW of the Ballynamona River and 325m SW of a townland boundary with Portboy. Ring-barrow (LI032-097001-) lies 60m to SW and barrow (LI032-098----) lies 50m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a ring-barrow and recorded as ‘Ballynamona (Hospital) 3’ by Grogan (1989, 218). Area of monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped, unplanted forestry exclusion zone (overall diam. 30m) on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.