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
- 52.44081, -8.56102
- SMR number
- LI039-159----
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 reclaimed pasture E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballyania. One of three possible barrows (LI039-159/161---) Identified from aerial photograph (ASIAP (346) 12) taken 05/01/2003. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 7m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Faint outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached aerial photograph (ASIAP (346) 12) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.