Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Tankardstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45070, -8.53513
- SMR number
- LI040-048004-
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, in the centre of a group of barrows (LI040-048001-/048003-; 048005-/006-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (No. 040258) identified as a small circular cropmark during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000, 2549) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Faint trace of monument visible as small circular cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Area of wet ground visible in area of cropmark which may be the remains of a small hollow or pond feature. Doubtful antiquity, could be the remains of a natural feature.
See attached aerial photographs from Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline (No. 040258) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 10 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.