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Burial mound

Ballinlough, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial mound, Ballinlough, 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
Ballinlough
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated, Rathphoorogue
Coordinates
52.51111, -8.41997
SMR number
LI032-109----

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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

Burial mound described in 1943 as following; 'The tumulus is situated on the highest point of a limestone hill called Rathphooroge, and it is not marked on the O.S. map. The mound is small and low and is mostly of earth. It seems to have had a kerb of large stones round its base of which only two are now visible. On top there are two stones on edge just showing through the turf. These make a right angle with one another and may be the corner of a cist. Outside the base of the mound is a rectangular stone kerb, the axis of which runs east-west. The mound is at the west end of the rectangle, and is cut off from the east end by a line of stones running north-south across the rectangle. The diameter of the base of the mound is 25' [7.6m] and its greatest height is 4' [1.2m]. The rectangle measures 43' [13m] by 30' [9m]' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 173-4).

See attached plan and profile of burial mound taken from O'Kelly 1942-3.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 25 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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