Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Herbertstown (o'Grady), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Herbertstown (o'Grady)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51648, -8.47165
- SMR number
- LI032-210----
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 the edge of Herbertstown village, 675m E of the Camoge River, which also marks a townland boundary with Kilcullane. Barrow (LI032-209----) lies 415m to WSW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 182: AP 4/3607), as a circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as an arc of a fosse (C 27m) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006 and as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 34m) defined by an internal fosse and an outer bank, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 182
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 November 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 351/15 taken on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.