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
- 52.49491, -8.43752
- SMR number
- LI032-273----
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, 42m SW of a main watercourse, which also marks a townland boundary with Ballincurra. The northern-most of a group of three contiguous ditch-barrows running roughly N-S. A cluster of three further ditch-barrows lie 35m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 238: AP 5/2018) as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Upstanding monument is clearly visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 13m) which appears to be defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 238
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 24 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.