Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch 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
- 52.50315, -8.45477
- SMR number
- LI032-263001-
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 a gentle SW-facing slope, in improved pasture, 115m NW of forestry and 185m NW of the Ballynamona River. Within S quadrant of a field system (LI032-263002-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 186.01: AP 4/3609) as a small oval-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a small roughly oblong-shaped earthwork (13m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. Upstanding monument is visible as a small circular-shaped area (diam. 5.5m) defined by a fosse and with a circular-shaped area (diam. 4m) defined by a fosse, adjoining to S, as seen on Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017. Conjoined ditch-barrows possible.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 186.01
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 21 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.