Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Herbertstown (powell), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Herbertstown (powell)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51406, -8.47996
- SMR number
- LI032-207----
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
On poorly drained partially reclaimed pasture on the floodplain of the Camoge River 115m to W. which marks the townland boundary with Kilcullane. Possible barrow (LI032-209----) and ring-ditch (LI032-211----) lie 170m to NE and SW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 178: AP 4/3607), as a small circular-shaped earthwork. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (11m N-S; 10m E-W) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. Monument is visible as a clear circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 11m) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 178
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.