Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50721, -8.45716
- SMR number
- LI032-258----
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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, 195m SSE of a townland boundary with Ballinscoola (Cahercorney) and an area of boggy heath. A possible enclosure (LI032-257----) lies 95m TO NNW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 185: AP 4/3608) as a circular-shaped mound enclosed by a fosse. Upstanding monument visible as an oval-shaped earthwork (82m E-W; 79m N-S) with a roughly circular-shaped central mound (32m E-W; 30m N-S) enclosed by three fosses with two intervening banks, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/20. Monument is also visible as same on oblique aerial images (ASIAP 351, 8 & 9) taken 05/01/2003.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 185
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 21 November 2020
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.