Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Mountfox, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountfox
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.41994, -8.59373
- SMR number
- LI039-109----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture 140m W the townland boundary with Ballygubba North. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 16m) defined by a scarp with fosse and outer bank truncated at S by drainage ditch running E-W. Levelled monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of levelled ring-barrow (overall diam. c. 32m) visible on Google Earth orthoimages visible to the immediate N of a drainage ditch running E-W.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 6 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.