Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Kilballyowen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilballyowen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47928, -8.50365
- SMR number
- LI032-126001-
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 improved pasture, on grounds of Kilballyowen House, 70m N of current access road which lies 700m W of a townland boundary with Knockainy. Ring-barrow (LI032-126002-) lies to the immediate E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Grogan (1989, 234) as a circular-shaped cropmark labelled ‘Kilballyowen 1’. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. The precise location of this monument cannot be confirmed without access to thesis which is not included in the paper file.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 9 November 2020
References
Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.