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Barrow - ring-barrow

Castlefarm, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Castlefarm, 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
Castlefarm
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.48142, -8.42759
SMR number
LI032-149002-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Enclosure (LI032-049001-) and ring-barrows described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is a circular earthen platform surrounded by two banks and two fosses. The entrance is not recognisable. The maximum height of the platform over the fosse-bottom is 5' [1.5m] and the overall diameter is 306' [93m]. A fence and drainage trench have cut through the west side of the defences and another trench has cut through them on the south. Situated in wet low-land. In the field immediately to the N.E. of this there were at least three ring-barrows [LI032-149002-/003-004-], one of which now remains. This consists of a very slight mound surrounded by a fosse. The overall diameter is 18' [6m]. The field is a meadow and the other barrows were levelled to facilitate the operation of machinery therein. Nothing was found when they were cleared away' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 237). Cropmark of enclosure (LI032-149001-) visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. No cropmark visible today of levelled barrows in field to NE of enclosure.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 4 March 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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