Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballinlough, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlough
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50520, -8.40189
- SMR number
- LI033-077----
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 wet pasture 50m N of watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Cromwell. Enclosure (LI033-009----) lies 160m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 110; AP 5/2021) as a ring-barrow. Circular-shaped cropmark visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached photocopy of Bruff aerial image labelled Bruff 110 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 7 April 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 133/07 taken 23/08/2000
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.