Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballinstona North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinstona North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44587, -8.56451
- SMR number
- LI039-147----
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 pasture 450m SW of Summer Ville House. Barrow (LI039-088----) lies 215m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow by aerial photograph (ASIAP (346) 6) taken 05/01/2003. Outline of monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 9m), with farm track to S, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Visible as a faint cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 04/04/2013.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 10 May 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.