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
- 52.49433, -8.44367
- SMR number
- LI032-272003-
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
In improved, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 305m NW of a public road, which also marks a townland boundary with Castlefarm. Ditch-barrows (LI032-272001-/02-) lie 62m and 105m to SE, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 231.03: AP 5/2017) as a small circular-shaped earthwork. Upstanding monument is clearly visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 12m) defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. Monument appears to be bisected by an old ditch or drain running NE-SW, as seen on modern orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 231.03
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 24 November 2020
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