Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballinlee North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlee North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46654, -8.56396
- SMR number
- LI039-044001-
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 rough pasture, 208m W of townland with Ballygreenan. One of a cluster of 3 barrows (LI039-044002/007-) with the closest barrow (LI039-044002-) 10m to the E. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (Site No. 039147) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2544) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline. Cropmark of small circular-shaped earthwork visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE 1/50000 2544) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 April 2021
References
Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.