Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Portboy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portboy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50669, -8.44241
- SMR number
- LI032-261----
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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, 50m NE of a townland boundary with Ballynamona and 345m NW of the Ballynamona River. A complex of contiguous barrows (LI032-289/290/291/292/293----) lie 335m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 230: AP 5/2018) as a faint roughly oval-shaped cropmark to the immediate NW of a farmyard. Levelled monument is visible as a faint roughly oval-shaped cropmark (16m NW-SE; 14m NE-SW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 20/03/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 230
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 21 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.