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Barrow - unclassified

Ballynamona (Smallcounty By., Hospital ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Ballynamona, 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
Ballynamona (Smallcounty By., Hospital ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.50208, -8.45043
SMR number
LI032-098----

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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

Mound-barrow described in 1943 as following; This monument consists of a, circular mound which does not seem to have had a fosse (Fig. 11). There is no bank either on the platform or ground the mound. The maximum height of the platform is 7' [2m] and the overall diameter is 120' [36.5m]. It is situate on the bank of the Ballynamona River and during drainage operations on this, part of the mound on the south side has been cut away. The land around it is marshy. The barrow is in the north-east quadrant of the platform. It consists of very low mound surrounded by a fosse. Its overall diameter is 30' [9m]' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 178-9).

See attached profile of monument taken from O'Kelly 1942-3, Fig. 11

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 26 February 2020

References

O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.

Nearby in the register

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

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