Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballynagranagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagranagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50682, -8.42930
- SMR number
- LI032-307----
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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, liable to floods and 20m NW of the Ballynamona River which also marks a townland boundary with Ballinlough. Enclosure (LI032-262----) lies 145m to SW. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 297: AP4/3611) as a circular-shaped earthwork defined by a fosse. Upstanding monument is visible as a well preserved circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 27m) defined by a fosse and an outer bank, as seen on aerial photograph (ASIAP 352, 12) taken 05/01/2003, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 297.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 289November 2020
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.