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Barrow - ditch barrow

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch 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
52.50315, -8.45477
SMR number
LI032-263001-

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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

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

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

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