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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballynamona (Smallcounty By., Hospital ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballynamona, 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
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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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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