Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Garrydoolis, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrydoolis
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49138, -8.32269
- SMR number
- LI033-115007-
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 pasture 75m W of townland boundary with Garrydoolis. One of eight possible barrows (LI033-115001/008-) concentrated in a large field (125m N-S; 175m E-W) in the W of the townland. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 122.04; AP 7/2028) as a ring-barrow. Faint traces of cropmark visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 8m) enclosed by a bank on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 122.07
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.